Day 5 - Paracas to Tambo Colorado to Huancano (25km cycling) Tuesday 2nd August

Today was the day that we escaped :-)
...and...
1- successfully located a taxi happy and able to fit us and the bikes
2- (Ant) successfully communicated with the taxi agreeing a final location and price
3- survived the taxi ride (very good driver)
4- (Emma) spoke Spanish to the taxi driver and kept calling Ant her wife... Taxi driver looked Ant up and down several times... Confused...
5- (Emma) accidentally dressed in West ham colours to look around the Inca Ruins
6- (Ant) decided Pompei does ruins better (!!!!)
7- (Emma's tummy) survived the 25km ascent into the Andes, fuelled by sweet green tea... Mmm
8- took 3 hours to cycle 25km (There's a reason you don't see Froome drinking green tea on climbs!)
9- arrived in cute town Huancano, greeted by friendly smiley faces that silently said (what are you guys doing you loco gringos!)
10- (Ant) spent about half an hour talking to workmen outside the hotel getting scope on good routes, where we've been, where we're going... That he supports Arsenal... WTF?!!!... that's grounds for annulment right? ... I suppose I'll forgive him as he did carry almost all the bags today and found out about hotels from the dude...
11- finally got into the hotel after the went to the shop to stock up the rooms, and its kinda cool
12- discovered we don't like sand flies... Not at all
13- discovered the only food here is fried chicken and chips
14- but overwhelmingly discovered how amazingly nice and lovely the people of huancano are... The kids just want to play, and ask us questions and giggle, and hide Ants water while he's not looking... Like literally ran into the shop, grabbed his water ran outside hid it by a tree and started giggling... No malice at all... Just a game... Super cute!!
15- (because its a nice number) we found cards and discovered I like to win... At all costs :-)


sleepy time now... Hopefully tomorrow will bring more power to my legs (and less fried chicken!)


adios amigos xxx