May
4th,
2018
Warm
and very sunny, cloud builds until large thunderstorms are overhead
and heavy rain falls.
I
am awake at around three o'clock and I need the loo. I get out of bed
and my bare feet stand in liquid. Someone has urinated in the
corridor of the hostel and it has seeped into my room! I am not a
happy bunny when the overnight receptionist says that nothing can be
done about it.
I
had intended to stay at the hostel another night and get some laundry
done but the overnight disruption has made me feel like getting on
and so I cycle the fifty miles to Hauripampa, a small village outside
Juanza. The route took me down the most gorgeous gorge, mile after
mile of twisting road that sloped down so that pedalling was at a
minimum.
On
rounding yet another bend I come across a village where hundreds of
people are watching either a football match or some volleyball. I
choose the former and sit with the locals cheering on the local team.
Sharing my food and juice, I chat with them and celebrate when the
match ends with the score 2 – 1 to the home side.
I
try to find my overnight hostel, booked already online and a very
helpful and chatty young Peruvian man helps me search the village. By
asking locals we eventually find it, a beautiful high wall surrounded
house. The proprietor, a lovely man named Moises, invites me in,
saying he had been waiting for my arrival and shows me my room. Music
is playing from a room next door, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. What a
perfect welcome!
Moises
wants me to go with him for a walk around the village and the local
hills but a large thunderstorm stops that and instead I relax in my
room.
Well relax as well as I can with the thunderstorm directly overhead
and there being an almost instantaneous bang of thunder when
lightning flashes! Beethoven's Sixth would be appropriate.
Green
Year list : 184 birds average new birds to list per day : 5.41
birds
Distance
walked : 48.56 miles
elevation
: up 3,883 feet, down 5,102 feet
altitude
: 11,004 feet
No comments:
Post a Comment