Drove east into the Vicuna park. We began to wonder why the
engine was laboring and although to all appearances the road was
flat we were climbing steadily. Very very barren rocky desert with
deep gulches everywhere.
Very different to what we have seen so far. Although our map says we are on a white road it is sealed but narrow.
We are no longer acclimatised to altitude so think we can handle about 3000m. We found a lovely hill overlooking the ground we had just driven, at about 2pm. We could not continue as the land only gets higher. We obviously were still very tired as we slept for 2 hours. A beautiful sunset.