Its 7 am here and i have time to kill despite going out late last night. We are at 3800M and although we are climatised to a degree, breathing is a struggle and just standing up quickly or walking a flight of stairs can put you in the í just finished my first marathon´position.
Basically i wake myself up every morning at this altitude because i cant catch my breath laying down in any position. Every 7 breaths i get short and need to take a massive lung full to compensate. This is common to a few of us, maybe i should put the local cigs out hat im smoking!
We spent one night in Cusco and caught up with some friends like Philly Fireman John that we met the previous week and then set off to continue our mission to reach Bolivia.
The journey was 389km to Puno where lake Titikaka lives. We set off at midday and caught another American friend on the road. We managed 279km over 7 hours straight before the cold and dark got the better of us. Spent the night in a 3 bed hostel with outdoor toilet and shower and piece of A4 paper taped at one end to the ceiling as a light shade costing 2 quid each, it was the only place in town but served its purpose.
Finished the final 100km in 2.5 hours the next morning in glorious sunshine but still cold to arrive at Puno.
Lake Titikaka is the highest and largest lake in the world at 75km across. People live on the lake on man made read beds (see pics).
Fiesta day in Punto so we got drunk and are now waiting for a solution to the latest red tape issue to get our paperwork to allow us to cross to Bolivia. In truth its been a massive disaster and lots of peeps have abandoned ship because of the continued screw ups by the organisers to get everything sorted to allow us smooth passage.
19 People have so far droppped out through injury, mechanical fault or time pressures due to delayed start. We are now at the front with 6 others waiting to cross into Bolivia.
Hoping to be in Le Paz tonight if we jump through all of the hoops in time to allow us to do the 7 hour, 280km drive today.
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- Lloyd and James
- East London, London, United Kingdom
- Lloyd (G) & James (T) pit them selves against india in this epic dash across the entire length of country. taking in Jungle, coast lines, cities and the foothills of the Himalayas!! what have they got themselves into here? With a NO bribe policy and an ever so mild disregard for driving enforcement this adventure is going to be a learning curve and smiling nicely while nodding enthusiastically. We will be taking on all India has to offer, in return we'll be taking Cricket and gin and tonic. this have never failed an englishman and we wont be letting the side down on this occasion!
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