We left early morning in a Land Cruiser with our driver, Placido, our cooker, Amelia and 5 of us (Salvi, Dimitri, Richard, Amelie and me). We drove through beautiful countryside through dirty roads, rivers, etc reaching the highest point of the day at 4800m of altitude. I don’t know if it was the altitude, the cold I had por the headache but I felt really bad that that day, even thought I was drinking quite a lot of coca tea and I even chew some leaves to help. Hopefully I’ll get used to the altitude soon. Today again we say plenty of llamas, vicunas and donkeys; one of them was so friendly that came to us in search for some food. For lunch I finally tried another of Bolivian delicatessen, the tamales, a mixture of llama
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