Once again it was cold during the night, but warm with the new blanket. The worst part of getting up each day is having to take down the tent.
Today we were cycling 107 kilometres, and climbing 930, and down 930.
Today I also have stomach cramp which is making it hard to ride. The asthma has improved but still have the cough and breathless.
The first part of the ride was straight road with a gradual climb, then a steeper climb up to a village. The countryside is still quite bleak, lots of small farmlets with the same small herds, mainly alpacas and some sheep, and someone there watching the herd.
A lot of the countryside has ploughed fields, although it is hard to imagine what would grow here, but then we haven’t seen it in the rainy season so could be very bit different then? There are lots of deserted villages, lots of old rock walls. It is very dry.
The last 15 kilometres was not paved and had construction vehicles, lots of dust and was steep, sandy, rocky, and not at all pleasant riding.
We are bushing camping again and staying at a crater site where a meteor landed. The camp is just past a large crater and is rocky and windy. The wind blows until about midnight. The wind makes it really cold. As soon as we have eaten we are all in our tents. Day 4 with no shower! I guess we all will be smelling as bad as each other.