Tuesday 10 May 2016

Landslides and Detours

After another trip to the beach - Huanchaco surf resort, we headed back up to the mountains again - the Cordillera Central.
The scenery up there was once again stunning, sometimes resembling Tuscany and even Devon in parts, not the pics below though....





The roads up there are another story! We weaved past many recent landslides and had to go on 2 major diversions.


The first because a bridge was closed, which involved an hour long ride along a sandy, single track "road" that was thrown down across the mountains. The second involved returning back to where we started, an hour and a half ago, to do a huge couple of hour detour due to a road collapse!

How long is the road closed for? A month, oh ok, we will go back then!


We did eventually make it to Los Banos del Inca, where we had a private bath in the "medicinal" thermal water. An Inca king bathed here to sort his war wounds.


We were going to explore further in this area, but due to the road problems we have decided to head north to Ecuador now :-)











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