SPdA day 3

good morning! up at 5:45am! surprisingly had lots of energia on this trip....

went on our Altiplano trek in the altiplano approaching argentina. we were 4,800 meters above sea level....which means it is really hard to breathe! haha. a little important since we were

trekking 8km. the trip is to walk really slow and chew coca leaves!!!!!!!!! no te preocupes.....the coca leaves only act as a stimulant like cafeina. and it actual helps the lightheaded feeling to go away.

we stopped at ways up the montana and had breakfast. this is where colleens and i took a pic with the ? sign. i have no idea what that sign meant! but it was funny. breakfast was the usual. same as yesterday. it was so windy and today there were no indoor bathrooms....solamente la naturaleza!!!! que divertido! entonces, fuimos un poco mas arriba y stopped at another mirador to see where we would be trekking! it was sooooo cold!!!!!!!!!!!!! we started by this big tall rock that i took lots of pics of and ended down by a laguna with llamas!!!!!!! my first contact with llamas in the wild!

i forgot to mention that the previous 2 days Oscar had given our tours in english (boo!) but today our guide was Ivan and he only spoke spanish! yay! so we ended up walking from about 9:30-2:30 and it was only 8ish km. Ivan guided the way but we had the liberty of exploring and climbing (so fun) whatever rocks our little hearts desired. climbing rocks is fun. also, the rocks on the ground are really cool too! i ended up bringing like a good 2-3lbs of rocks home.....? yeah.

the llamas were soooooo awesome! i got like within 30ft of a llama and now that i think about it i wish i had gone closer. we were the only humans up here. normal tours do not include the altiplano...so it was so sweet to be in God's creation that was really really untouched and uninhabited. today i sung my God is so Big so strong and so mighty there's nothing my God can not do! it was so wierd to see these random huge rocks protruding from the ground in the middle of the desert. i don't understand it.