Peru part 2: Thin air to the tune of El Condor Pasa
April 18th 2007 Soroche is Spanish for altitude sickness, and the thought of it was the one thing that slightly bothered me as we sat on the plane between Lima and Cusco. We had been good travellers, and seen our travel doctor (quite a few times) before we left - Elle had about 10 shots over the course of a few weeks, and I had a few too (she even had to have one twice, the painful subdermal rabies vaccine, becau
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