Colca Trekking Mayhem!!! Part 2

Greetings to my adoring fans. Or fans. Or just people.

Here is where the hard part starts. Waking up from the much needed sleep, I obtained 4 chocolate bars and 2 small bottles of fizzy drinks. We started our climb out of the canyon around 8ish am. That was our first mistake. The second mistake was not having any breakfast. The third mistake was not having enough water and food to get us out.

With the Sun blazing on our sweating backs, we climbed for hours. Eventually it became such a hard and exhausting climb, I literally hugged any shaded walls, giving myself a few minutes of rest. Or more. We consumed all the chocolate before it melted, and the worst occured. We both ran out of water. It now became a mission of survival to climb out of that hell hole and get something to drink. I eventually had to start crawling my way up because it was so difficult. We did make it out obviously, after 4 hours I believe. It was by sheer will power we managed to achieve this. Reaching the top, we were greeted by a nice cold stream, where we soaked our heads in the revitilizing water. I also drank some of it, putting my Steripen to test.

Things only got worse however. Reaching the small town, we found out we would have to wait until 9 30pm until we could get a bus out of the bloody place. That left us with 6 hours to kill, where all we wanted was a nice shower and some decent food. But no, life decided to punch us in our groins. At least I managed to solve the mystery of the apaca meat. We ordered steaks at the same restaurant, and I was relieved to find that the steak did not look like the apaca meat at all. So Sean didn´t eat my apaca meat.

Finally reaching Arequipa, life decided to further stamp and stomp on us as we discovered that our hostel no longer had any spare rooms. Even worse, the hostel was lacking staff! We were just lucky that the door to the hostel was actually open, so we quickly collected the rest of our bags and trekked to the famous hostel, Wild Rover. Here we finally got to sleep in fairly decent beds.