RESTLESS, BREASTLESS AND BREATHLESS - single life at altitude

billshum Wyświetlono: 83 razy 2006-03-24 20:56:48

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Dedicated to the god of constipation?Strange spending so much time so high, altitudinaly that is, when the highest real estate in Oz, Mt. Kosiusko, is only 2,200 metres or so (I think) and here in San Pedro de Atacama it’s already 2,440 and everywhere else around here is higher. Breathing is always a little laboured but with a mouthful of coca it gets easier!
Dedicated to the god of constipation?Strange spending so much time so high, altitudinaly that is, when the highest real estate in Oz, Mt. Kosiusko, is only 2,200 metres or so (I think) and here in San Pedro de Atacama it’s already 2,440 and everywhere else around here is higher. Breathing is always a little laboured but with a mouthful of coca it gets easier!

Did a few look-arounds of San Pedro, they really draw a long bow with some of the “famous” features, crikey, but the general scenery is soo fantastic that you can overlook the overblown toury spots general shortcomings. Valley of the Dead, Dry Lake, Green Lake…and, in the Valley of the Moon, the Turtle’s Head that iconic, Incan outcrop, dedicated to the god of constipation. While we’re there, much as the Valley of the Moon was modestly awesome, I’ve never seen a picture of the moon that looks even vaguely like this terrain? (yes, I know, picky picky!)

And of course the geysers!..4am start…(for some reason they only geys until the sun comes up)…I remembered the 4am bit at midnight the night before, omg, after 2 premature early nights and subsequent cancellations, I’d decided to party on…so I staggered back to the donga, tried to set the alarm on the watch, forgot how, tried a 1 min test, fell asleep, woke 15 mins later, still sitting on the edge of the bed, tried again, woke to the alarm 2 mins later, re-set the alarm, woke at 3.30am, 20 mins before the alarm!..waited in the freezing morning for the bus…5 others went past…now are you sure they are picking us up here?…finally, 4.45am they come…so we get to meet some more very nice traveller people altho’ everyone sleeps most of the way. Get there about 7.30, frosty piccaninny dawn, first rays of the sun just tipping the 6,000 m volcans around us, we’re at 4,000 or so, 4 degrees below zero…luckily I have the bike boots and stand in one of the geysers so the boiling water heats the feets.

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