Llanganuco Lodge Huaraz

... to our Cave (yes, the room we were sleeping in made use of a cave as half of the walls....it was awesome). After sleeping under an incredible down comfortor, I woke up just before breakfast and went out to enjoy the gorgeous scenery. After a hearty breakfast of fruit, granola, eggs, bacon and tea, we continued to relax, reading and writing a bit, before heading out on a short walk to a river. Unfortunately once we got to the river we were forced to turn around ...

... to be impressed by ruins anymore!
We got the bus back. During the ride it started to snow. Not cool as I had shorts and a singlet on and froze my **** off. But being from Australia, I havent seen snow falling yet, even on my trips to Mt Buller and New Zealand. So worth being abit cold for the experience.
I got back into town and had dinner before calling Dad on Skype for his birthday, also called Lance my best mate. Good to hear ...

... 1488;חרי 5 שעות של עליה קשה, 1000 מ טיפוס!, שניות ספורו 14; לפני הסופה היומי 14;.
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... 1492; שאורכ 92; 3 שעות עוברת בין כפרים ציורי 97;ם שבתיה 01; בוץ ובחצר 93;ת תרנגו 00;ות פרות וחזיר 97 ...

... has thirty three major peaks over 5,500 metres (18,040 ft) high in an area only 21 kilometres wide. To put that into perspective, Mount Cook in New Zealand is the highest point at 3,754 metres (12,320 ft), with only 16 other points in that range exceeding 3,000 metres in height. Translation: there are a hellava lot of huge mountains here!

And we planned on getting as close as we could to some of the more spectacular peaks. A trek that seemed good ...

... the culture's deity, heaven and hell. Pretty cool.

After the tour had finished we once again boarded the bus for the long journey back. I was exhausted and suffering a little from the altitude so I decided to give myself a day of rest before embarking on some trekking. As it happened, I managed two days of rest before I set off to complete the Santa Cruz trek, from which I have just returned. For that particular installment, you must return next time...

After leaving Mae, I headed up another 12 hours on a bus to the city of Huaraz located in the Andes Mountains. I got there late, and stumbled into a pretty ****** hostel at around 2, feeling sick and tired from the 36 hours of bus I had in the last couple days, and a painful haphazard diet along the way. The next morning, I found another hostel and took the day to recover as I gathered information and supplies for the trek I had my eye on, The Glorious (so they say ...

... Lagunas. daar zijn we het nationaal park Pacaya Samira in geweest, en hebben ons drie dagen lui in een kano ons laten vervoeren (niet echt iets voor ons, zelf niets mogen doen dan plaatjes schieten). De jungle was wel geweldig!
Daarna zijn we naar de Chacapoyas regio geweest, een gebied op 2000 meter hoogte. Daar heeft in de pre-inka tijd een volk geleefd, dat zijn doden mummificeerde en in de ...

... that my camera could be fixed instead of me having to go out and look to buy a brand new one. He then quoted a price – Antonietta then begged him to lower the price as if she was begging for mercy. I just stood in the background hoping that he will just fix it and give the camera back to me as soon as possible. She succeeded in haggling the price down – down to 180 soles which still worked out much cheaper than buying a new ...