In the photo, she wears a big smile as she points to Machu Picchu, the incredible Inca city planted at an altitude of 2,400 m to give thanks to the Sun god.
Three days later, Natacha de Crombrugghe, a 28-year-old Belgian woman who was traveling alone in Peru, disappeared 17 hours by bus away, while she was on her way to discover the Andean highlands.
His family and friends posted messages on social networks on Thursday, the Belgian federal police issued a wanted notice on Friday, hoping to collect information that could guide the search on the spot.
Who saw Natacha DE CROMBRUGGHE DE SCHIPSDAELE?
#disappeared in Peru on 01/23/2022.
https://t.co/qO3nVMatBe pic.twitter.com/TWCwV3iXdS
– Notice of search (@police_temoin) February 4, 2022
The young woman had left a backpack in her hotel room in the town of Cabanacondé on January 23 before leaving to visit the Colca Canyon, a popular tourist destination in the Peruvian highlands.
Since then, she has not given any news.
Last telephone conversation with his parents
“Two national police rescue teams have started looking for the Belgian tourist,” said the Peruvian state agency Andina, indicating that Eloy Cacya, an expert high mountain rescuer, is collaborating in this task. “Our diplomatic team on site is following this very closely. We are in contact with the family, ”confirmed to the Belga agency the spokesman for the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wouter Poels.
The Belgian, a law graduate from the Catholic University of Louvain and who until recently worked for an insurance company, according to her LinkedIn profile, last communicated with her parents in Brussels on January 23 at around 5:30 p.m. that she was in Cabanacondé.
His GPS and then his cell phone were then turned off.
She had planned to sleep three nights in the pension, to have time to discover the city and the canyon.
Natacha regularly shared photos and comments from her trip to Peru on social media, but suddenly stopped doing so.
His last Facebook post was on January 20, at Machu Picchu, a 650 km drive from the canyon.
According to La Libre Belgique, Natacha was to take the plane this weekend to continue her journey in Colombia.
