Huarraz
We`ve just done a day of bus travel from Pisco through Lima to Hurraz. Hurraz is a very nice mountain town, with aparantely great trekking. We`re off tomorrow on the Santa Cruz trek, 4 days, only one pass of 4750m so shouldn`t be too bad. I`m hoping that only a week at sea level hasn`t ruined the acclimatisation, we`ll see. All of Lima and the coast (Pisco included) is covered in a grey fog for 8 months of the year (winter) and then ludricously hot and humid for summer, but Hurraz is nice and clear.
We`re leaving Lima on the 28th overnight, not the 27th as I think I wrote, so we`ll hide up here for a week. Passing through Lima, my first impressions were "big, ugly city", its got no center and its huge (8m people and growing fast).
There`s a good ex-pats cafe out here, they invited us to their traditional weekly ultimate frisbee game on a local soccer pitch (3200m), which was great fun. Most of them are peace corps volunteers, teaching people about water supplies and hand washing. Quite a few of them volunteered out here- its that kind of place, great atmosphere, scenery, friendly people (even the touts aren`t too insistant).
We`re leaving Lima on the 28th overnight, not the 27th as I think I wrote, so we`ll hide up here for a week. Passing through Lima, my first impressions were "big, ugly city", its got no center and its huge (8m people and growing fast).
There`s a good ex-pats cafe out here, they invited us to their traditional weekly ultimate frisbee game on a local soccer pitch (3200m), which was great fun. Most of them are peace corps volunteers, teaching people about water supplies and hand washing. Quite a few of them volunteered out here- its that kind of place, great atmosphere, scenery, friendly people (even the touts aren`t too insistant).
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