Serious Trekking

To round up our trekking experience in Peru we took almost a day of bus ride upon us to get to the trekking capital of the northern part: Huaraz. It is the main city around the Cordillera Blanca mountain range.

As a serious trekker should know, good weather is temporary. Here we experienced the rainy season to its full. Some say there is no bad weather only bad equipment, but I can assure everybody, that even in the best rainjackets you get wet after walking around 3 hours in pouring rain (the difference is maybe that you don't get cold immediately as well). By the way: hail to the cheapest raintrousers from the cheapest campingshop in Dublin - they are really good.

For the two tours we did we took all the possible kinds of transportation: A motor rickshaw (of course the one with transformers deco - batman is out!) The public bus 20 ppl. for 12 seats. And taxis (Mr guide why is that everybody has Toyota Corollas? - Because they are the best cars - ...) dodging rivers, rocks and dead cows in the middle of the road, 6 ppl. excluding the driver.

We made important trekking experiences: We were walking without a guide. We were turning back on the same walk after being lost for an hour, without reaching our goal, but surviving. (hey it is all above 4000m remember!) We also added iceclimbing to our repertoire, so now we would be ready for a really tought ascent to somewhere above 5000m, but

Even though all this was nice, we have enough of suffering, so we are done with trekking for a while. Looking forward to be in hopefully sunny Brazil in a couple of days. Until then we head back to Lima for our last two days in Peru.