Panamericana roadtrip memories 8

Team 68
We drove 440 km to Yucay. The landscape is definitely changing now. You can really tell we’re travelling towards the equator. After every corner you find yourself in new scenery. I can tell you that the 3 metre high Sansevierias have their appeal. Amazing trees with bright red bunches of flowers and children herding llamas. And of course cows, pigs and more of the like just walking on the road. We drove in the dark and we only have our distance headlamps left. Thankfully we could squeeze in between 2 other cars, because driving amongst trucks without your rear lights is not the best idea.

I thought we’d sleep in a cowshed - I didn’t see anything else along the way - but suddenly we passed a gate and we arrived at a fabulous lodge hotel. Stunning gardens, wonderfully lit, pretty houses: so beautiful!

Team 68
In Argentina we saw some llamas, in Chile we also saw some horses, but the things we saw on the roads in Bolivia and now in Peru are something else. We see: cows, goats, sheep, donkeys, rocks (that fell down the mountain) but most of all: dogs. Lots and lots of dogs. It’s an infestation. The people here don’t seem too bothered. The advice is to honk when they’re in your way and it works, they move. Now we’re on the 2nd mountain pass of the day and on our way to Nazca. Altitude is now 4000 metres and we’re on our way to 4500 metres.