Continued our high pass to Cotahausi. The track became
very rough, however it became a bit better after joining another road. Very barren and desert like up here. fantastic view looking down 2000m’s onto Cotahausi. Saw our first condor circle above us.As we descended we saw a very large Llama herd
; about 300 animals. 3hrs and 50km’s
later, half way down the serious descent from 4200-2700m we were
stopped by an overtaking ute.The guy explained to me that there was a road block that they had been working on for 4 months. He explained what road we should take which was good, and we needn’t retrace much of yesterdays drive, just four km’s past last night's camp.
So we turned around
and retraced our steps. There was a triangular road which we took as a
detour, hoping it would be better, which it was for a while, then
degraded. But a beautiful drive across the high plain wetlands.We had lunch overlooking another beautiful high lake (4700m alt), 2.5 hrs and 60km’s later. Nearly back to the turn off.
We turned off onto
the white road which was well maintained and headed down to Chacana. 52 switchbacks later we were stopped by a police man as drove through the town square. No
Passe! Rockfall last night should be cleared tonight or tomorrow
morning…. What a let down. So we pulled up at the main village
square for the night (3390m alt).
