From the dirt road we could see the border wall of the crater. I have never been inside the crater but my dad told me there are two lakes inside separated by a huge lump of rocks. My dad and I planned this trip last week. I´ve been staying with my dad for almost 3 months now. He lives in Toluca, Mexico, about an hour west of Mexico city. We woke up at 6:30am and drove all the way to the camp site at the entrance of the crater. We grabbed our backpacks with water and some food for lunch. When we got out of the car the thermometer read 2 degrees. We started walking slowly. Our lungs could feel less amount of oxygen in the air. We had trouble breathing. Stopping briefly to adjust to
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