It´s fricking freezing in here mr bigglesworth

We got up early this morning and a different (much smaller) tour bus picked us up from the hotel. It took us through the mountains, past herds of llama and alpaca, tiny villages, peasants, etc all the way up to Perus highest mountain pass. The air was so thin it was hard to breathe. Panting required even to walk the length of the bus.

The reason for the smaller bus is that our normal one wouldn´t be able to handle the terrain. The road is very rough and rock falls are common. We stopped at the only place in the middle of nowhere for coca tea and then carried on through the mountain desert.

Eventually we arrived at a small community with a grouping of huts and a large fire heated common room. This was to be our base for the night. But not yet. It was only 11.30am.

They´d prepared us some box lunches which we loaded onto the bus and continued. We went to colca canyon (stopping to clear the road of two land slides on the way) and ate our lunches watching condors soaring over the worlds deepest canyon. Impressive. We then hiked for about an hour just to take in some scenery and then headed back to the huts.

We had a great dinner and watched some local kids dancing - the poor sods had walked about 5km to enteratin us! Then we played a few games by the fire and retired to our own cabins. They are freezing. I´m going to have to do a count up of body bits in the morning to make sure nothing has fallen off....