Day 7 - Ayacucho to camping somewhere on a mountain (Saturday 6th August...40km)

Oh man what a 40km that was! We are all totally wiped, but an awesome day's riding and about 1000m ascent. We were treated to some beautiful (and well earned views) and a very cute small traffic shy road, that gifted us roast pork an potatoes at exactly lunch time... AMAZING!
Jan cycled with us today, complete with all his GPS maps and months of planning.
Ant (the Cycle touring optimist as nicknamed by Jan) found us a beautiful camp spot, just as we thought our legs could carry us no more. It even had a shower! (well a very considerately though completely accidentally left on hose pipe to water a field that left a mini waterfall over the rocks by our pitch). One of my redeeming features I'm proud to say, is the way in which I embrace a cold shower... Even washed my hair... Though the farmer (who we thought had vanished) was 'treated?!!' to a view that neither of us gad bargained for!! Ant perhaps sensibly spent less time getting hypothermia in the shower, which meant he was much more competent when it came to cooking our gourmet supper of choco bear porridge. (If you've never tried choco bear porridge, DON'T... It's only redeeming feature is the cute bears on the packet...now that's marketing for you!). We also finally ate the green fruit of doom (aptly named by Ant as a  kind(!!?!) lady came running out of her restaurant to give it to us a few days ago... A true Peruvian delicacy... A few kilos of greeny goodness... That Ant had to carry!!) and it was actually more tasty than what choco bear had to offer... Though very sweet.
So bed at 8pm after watching the sun set over the mountains and seeing the stars in all their glory.
A good and well earned day!