Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Laid Back Trekking

With Steve on his way, I wasted no time getting back to the great outdoors, and headed off to do the 4 day Santa Cruz trek.

Again, I did the trek through an agency. Since this trek is much more popular than the Huayhuash, our group consisted of 8(!) people. The large number f people on the group made me a bit worried, but in hindsight these people where the main reason I enjoyed the trek so much, even though we suffered bad visibililty for some of the highlights. The group was made up of a German couple, a Dutch couple, a French guy and a Taiwnanese girl (also a couple), a Welsh guy, and myself. There were all very nice and funny (especially fabrice, the frenchman, who kept making fun of the brit).
As I said, visibility wasn´t very good, and we didn´t even get to see Alpamayo, a mountain that was declared by UNESCO as "the world´s most beautiful mountain". I did however see a cloud that kind of looked like Givat Hamorè.

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