Breathtaking

Today I went to the ANDES!!!

I am just so excited about it still, I can hardly tell you. It was amazing, awe inspiring, stunning, breathtaking.

It s only about an hour and a half driving to get from the city right up into the mountains. We climbed and climbed in a minibus, hairpin bends all the way. It´s very dry there, sort of a desert and lots of spiny trees and cactuses. The vegetation drops off as you get higher. We climbed to 3,500m - 12,000ft (I jumped out of an aeroplane at 12,000ft!!) where there are fewplants and the rocks ared just incredible. It´s so high that even just walking fast made me feel a bit dizzy and my legs went a bit wobbly (literally breathtaking!)

It´s definitely one of th most amazing things I´ve ever done and I had to keep pinching myself to believe I was really there. It was a stunning day, not a cloud in the sky... didn´t see any condors though although I looked really hard!

Photos, of course to follow. Not all of them though as I took about 200! But a few...

xxx

P.S, about all I get from people over here is this: "¿de donde eres?" "Inglaterra". "Ohhhh... la boda royal, eh? Principe William, eh??" "Si, si... (smile in a taught and stretched fashion and nod half-heartedly)"