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August 20th 2008

Published: September 7th 2008

Hi all, Nick Here: yes, its time to say goodbye to Bolivia, land of cheap food, cheap thrills, and cheap gastro and enter the tourist wilds of Peru. We took a bus from copacabanna on the shores of lake titicaca through to puno, and with a quick "Amazing Race" style negotiation managed to jump aboard a moving bus to Arequipa within 5 minutes of our arrival. And amazingly without totally being f... Read Full Entry

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rinske makes a friend

the price is high... moments later rinske had to return the favour for this little guy. But it all got a bit heated when another monkey wanted some love. So in order to solve the issue, they started biting her. Its all about property.

jose and family

sunset in huaywash cordellia

knocking over a 4700m pass.

Anything over 4000m is hard work. Can we go down now.

rin spends more quality time

another cracking sunset over camp

rock climbing at altitude

heres the climb Nick did. Basically up the main shadowed rock face. 140m more or less in 5 pitches. At 3700m. Very cool. Even lead a section and did some rappelling of the pitches for practice. But we decided to walk it out the top.

The view from the top of the climb

for perspective you can see the car in the top of the photo

casa hexagon - bottom floor half missing

Here you can see the dramatic effect on the foundations and bottom floor of casa hexagon from the flooded river.

casa hexagon - height of ash

You can see the height of the ash here against the shed. Its this level of ash, and meltwaters from the glaciers due to the ash that caused the devastating flooding.

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