Peru, Huaraz

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After a particularly hair-raising bus journey through the Andes (I’m sure the driver was drunk), we arrived at Huaraz, a climber’s paradise surrounded by towering snow capped peaks and jagged rock faces. Had a fantastic day rock climbing with the sun beating down on us and waterfalls and white mountains as our backdrop. The mountain range here is called the Cordillera Blanca (white mountains), no prizes for guessing why. Another day was spent mountain biking, bloody knackering going uphill but fun zooming down. We also visited some Inca ruins which were ok but not a patch on the others we’ve encountered. Found a little gem of a restaurant that served the most amazing fajitas, curries and English organic cider, not really that much of a stop press event but after some of the meals we’ve had it was utter bliss. [Clare]