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| DAY 2 'So after our impatience for waiting to check in the woman behind finally deecided to relieve us of our bags. An entertaining competition commenced of who's bag was the heaviest and who was trying to cheat with very little stuff!! Well Kim was discovered to be that naughty cheater, but she was excused by us all because she was ill. Alita's and Sara's bags were to be by far the heaviest (under Louises of course!)' |
| DAY 3 �Gasping for breath we arrived at the coach terminal ready for our 6 hr coach trip to Huaraz. To while away the time we decided to play games. After our first few attempts had failed we settled on charades � and up stepped Hasmita to rather amusingly act out �Bedknobs and broomsticks� in front of a full waiting room of rather bemused Peruvians. Fortunately for them, our coach came in at that point so we all had to climb aboard. Thus began a coach journey that will go down in Peruvian World Challenge trips history as the one where everyone nearly wet themselves. Mush to our amusement (?!) we found that if you combine the effects of diamox with water and a long coach journey you end up with extreme discomfort. The coach stopped just in time (Not a second too soon) and we stepped out into a small village thing. Quickly we began to question the locals � Donde es the toilets?!� Much to our confusion they all seemed to point in different directions. Later we realised they were pointing to the nearest shadow. Eventually we got the message and dashed into a back alley to find an appropriate shadow. I was among the lucky ones who was not in such a desperate state but this process was repeated again towards the end of the journey. We have discovered that �We�ll stop soon� to a Peruvian bus driver really means in � hr at the earliest�� |
| DAY 6 �While painting there was a traumatic experience involving this massive rat running around and Iain (being a typical bloke) jumped on a chair while Howie managed to save the day� |
| DAY 7 �Then we made our way there in the nuns 4x4. Kishani, Nicola, Caroline, Louise, Katy and I were all in the back. It was cold but well worth it! We sang tonnes of songs from Bohemian rhapsody (?) to London�s Burning. The best fun.� |