Day two, up through the pass We set off for the hardest day of the trek, 6 hours and just under 900m up. It was a climb from 3870m to 4750m and back down to 4250 to camp. It was up then gentle up, up then gentle up, up then.... you get the point. Just incase you don't remember, altitude starts affecting you over 3000m. We set off and like yesterday it was a reasonably slow pace. We walked over a makeshift fence designed to stop the donkeys from walking home in...

Day one We were picked up outside Churrup hostel just after 6:30am and after a couple more stops around town we we were on our way into the mountains to start the 4 day Santa Cruz trek with Quehuandes. Our group consisted of 8 hikers; Andrew and I, Dave (UK) and Jana (Germany), Frank and Frank (France) and Tony and Natalie (Germany). We also had our guide, Carlos, and our cook, Pancha. We drove out of Huaraz towards the town of Yungay. After a couple of hours ...

Our last day at school We picked up all our items for school and headed off with a big 'to do' list. Helped in the kitchen with apples and ripping up bread (for a Peruvian dish ajo de gallena), big poster for our fair well, games, kiss a doll somewhere different, balloon around the circle, first two out played statues, then two more rounds with 2 pairs of dancing, Clarita was cheating by using the reflection from her screen to stop the music, both times Sarah a...

So much for a day Spanish lesson were very funny, we completed an exercise with body parts and verbs. Sarah uses 'your mouth works a lot,' which our teacher loved and was trying hard not to laugh. We worked it out and joined in, this was followed by my arms work a lot also and when I got the word knees, Sarah asked me not to say they work to, so I said they were very sore. Jessica and I were giggling while Sarah did the next one. She thought I was being sensible...

Just another day We had the (currently) normal morning withe Spanish and heading to school. On the way we booked the Santa Cruz trek with Quechuandes, $180 for four days all included other than the sleeping bags. We completed more bracelets in the morning and had an easy lunch with the fleas. In the afternoon i played board games with the juniors. Sarah joined in with some kids colouring in. she drew a cartoon horse from a book cover and they loved it. She spe...