Report of Monday 14 July
Report by Benno en Thecla
under the tarpaulin
awaking
ice cristals
bitter cold
Mongolian steppe …
It was a night from fighting against the cold, the effect of the coolness of the moon and the Siberian wind weren’t so good for a nice temperature. In the morning was it fourteen degrees below zero and we lay under a thick layer of white frost. Dirk has problems with the altitude, he is dressed in his special thick car clothes and his Russian cap he looks like if he comes from a Siberian work camp. Trudy tries to warm the water, but everything is frozen.
This is the ultimo romance of travelling!.
Dirk with headache from …
Dirk says that is one of the heaviest part of his world trip till now. But by using some jokes we break the ice. After the sun is becoming more strength we can go on (ten o clock in the morning). On the high plateau we see a herd of alpaca’s and later wild guanaco’s.
From the waving high plateau we go to a landscape which we know only from fairy tales, but luckily the road is getting much better en the model T again drives strong.
In the late afternoon we reach Huancayo and we go directly to one of the hospitals.
There Thecla gets with a lot of trouble first but finally her second vaccination against rabies. By the parking of the hospital we meet the wife of the director from the SOS children village, Monica. Se brings us to the village, where we may sleep in the community house and got each an own room. By Jessica, the cook of the personal (and the community house) we get a delicious meal. The showers were we also long to have to wait, because there is only for three hours day water. But with only glass water in our face, the ostriches feel also very well!
first sight on guanaco’s
curious alpaca
on the high plateau
please full again
on our way
strange colored rock layers
little roads, big trucks
inside a family restaurant
Wat een kanjers zijn jullie!
Beterschap Dirk, hoogteziekte is niet fijn. Maar er komt een einde aan die hoogtes.
Adembenemende vergezichten.