Having recuperated from our day of ice climbing we spent the rest of Monday hiring camping equipment and buying food for our trek. We decided to do the popular 38 mile Santa Cruz trek which is touted as one of the top 5 treks in the world and can be done in 3-5 days, we also decided to combine Santa Cruz with the one day trek to Laguna 69. Our intention was to do the whole thing in 4 days. After much debate about what type of sleeping bag needed to be hired to ke...

We arrived in Huaraz early on Saturday morning after our overnight bus from Trujillo. Huaraz is located in the middle of the Cordillera Blanca mountain range which is the 2nd largest after the Himalayas, it is surrounded by peaks of up to and over 6,000m and is the central town where trekkers etc acclimatise before setting off into the really spectacular mountains. There is so much to do here and we've already realised we'll end up here longer than we had planned...