Our smooth talking tour operator wasn't being altogether truthful when he told us that our group would be small (max. 8 people) and we would be picked up at 4.30 prompt from our hotel. In fact, we were quite certain by 5.15 that he had taken our money and run. Then just as we were nodding off again, fully clothed in our big comfy bed, there was a knock at the door, and our friendly guide, Yuri was there to take us on our next adventure. Our group, it turned out, consisted of about 20 people, lots of Gernans, some Dutch, Brazilian, Swiss, Aussie, a couple of Taiwanese and a Swede. After another hairy 2 hour bus drive we arrived at the little town of Mollepata, where we were annoyed to discover we had to pay
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