Gorgeous - can't believe this is Peru!
Good morning from Huaraz, we actually made it with an overnight bus from Trujillo to
Huaraz. We're going to head to a place called Laguna 69 today. Laguna 69 is
at 4,600 meters and we have so far been driving for about two hours up, what I
would say is one of the roughest roads that I've ever been on. It doesn't help
that we actually woke up at 4 and get pickup by 5, but now it's
not even 8 o'clock yet. We're stopping for breakfast, and as bad
the drive is, some of the most beautiful scenery I've ever seen in my life.
For those of you wondering why it's called Laguna 69, well, when this became a park
one of the things that they had to do was to name all the lakes, and some of
the lakes had names. The park application wouldn't be approved unless they had all
the lakes named, so they just started numbering them, and this is why this one
is called the Laguna 69 or Lake 69. It looks like we got another 40
minutes to an hour drive of head-shaking driving before we get up there, and then
I'm not sure how long the hike is, but I've heard - I thought I heard
someone say it's 14 kilometers in and out. All right let's go get breakfast
First stop today is this turquoise color lake called the lake g9 culture
unfortunately is not 69 the 16 is gonna be a three-hour hike up but this is kind
of the sample so like another teaser and the deepest said 28 meters deep gorges
can't believe this is Peru quick stop only five minutes all right we're
starting our Trek we just got off the bus we've got three hours in apparently
I already feel a bit of rain we were informed that weather could change
really really fast it's almost guarantee that's it's gonna
rain we have no rain here I have a dry bag to put the camera in that's about it
I have a GoPro here we go ticket control number one just get our tickets punch so
we are officially inside the yeah which is called it's called the National Park
was Karen and happens to be a UNESCO protected site that's we're hoping to
get and not get soaking wet this is what we're starting at twelve thousand eight
hundred and thirty eight feet for thirty nine hundred meters I'm hoping that it's
gonna be all like this I don't think so though it's very interesting trees that
we're seeing on the way in I don't know what these are you know what kind of
trees these are
well I think this is a special tree if I remember correctly our guide told us his
name I just don't remember oh yeah one killer meter and a little bit down
let's get going because we want to beat the rain definitely start to hike up I
surely hope it doesn't go all the way up there but it seems like it will be epic
hike yep still way beautiful break time we're gonna open an orange or
two we know where we going now above your head
right above Apollo's head there's people it's about maybe three miles to go so
far so good just broke a few swept and hasn't rained
yet
so far we've made it to about 40 300 meters and depending on what maps you
look at laguna 69 is 45 or 46 hundred meters high feelin it's a bit cold here
so you could actually see the snow-capped mountain i am the wind
directly from there yeah you can see the glaciers behind us it's really beautiful
and this definitely brings in : oh yeah and i think i need to probably put my
jacket back on I took it off because we were sweating a bit and even my jacket
was getting a little bit wet but I think the trade-off isn't worth it hold the
bag just for a second please it's try it out a bit so that's always
good let's get to the top of this glacier
the fog or whatever that is cloud start to roll in
but he hasn't ring yet these guys don't see if you have any trouble with the
altitude hi guys
doesn't see much but it is actually quite difficult to climb up here not as
bad as the rainbow mountain are you feeling like goodness 69 no it's not I
think it's just actually I don't know like 168 or something but just about one
more hour to go to 69 and hopefully there's gonna be as flat as this this is
called a concealed bike or the Esperanza Lake Hope Lake because if you can make
it to the lake 69 this is where you can end up after how about climbing it's
nice to have a little bit of flatness it's probably good to walk this at a
fairly brisk pace because once we get to the rock we're going up all the way to
Laguna think you know cool looking cactuses
I guess we're sort of above the tree line now so cactuses is where you're
gonna get
it's pretty much one kilometer straight up it's closer than the one while so
that's like we walked by didn't realize it's actually another Lake up here just
really cool Cinco minutos
five more minutes he said but I think oh my voice is really raspy but I think we
are looking at the end of the trail you never know until you get there
I think that's aside for laguna 69 whoo hurry this was the longest hike at Alta
River not that many but we're at about 4,600 meters right now it's well over
15,000 feet and we climb like about 700 meters I think the whole hike for three
hours yeah it's definitely pretty challenging at time it didn't rain and
it was easier than rainbow mountain for the amount of time that we did this yes
I honestly think it's beautiful definitely feel like Venice in Canada
you like this color and then it's so pretty
this is why people come here to laguna 69 yep that's about it I don't think I'd
do it again but I was worth it we were told that when we get off the van we get
exactly six hours to go here in the right and go back we got about 20 more
minutes we've already had to get back
I wish those Klaus is playing up right now may be nice it there either way with
even better when we are delayed this is what it's like to go down one of the
cool things about this hike is the scenery and I've never seen anything
like this except for in Milford Sound you look behind me you'll see like that
mountain right there you can see the clouds are covering it and over here a
little bit as well maybe that's not even close to the top of those mountains like
those clouds are masking another few hundred meters maybe I don't know if
it's that much but when the clouds are gone those mountains are just much more
massive than they were okay now that we're done for the day
it's time to do a little bit of a reality check on this trip it wasn't
quite what I want and here's why we got up at 4 o'clock this morning
shuttle picked us up at 5 o'clock we went around picking other people up for
about three-quarters of an hour we drove three hours two of those hours
were some of the roughest roads we've ever been on and we parked at the base
of what's the special but goodness 69 then we walked up for three hours
fortunately we sort of accustomed to elevation overage but three hours is a
lot of work it's a bit challenging especially when you get up there and
you're there only for 30 minutes we were just doing the rainbow mountain and
that's pretty much the Instagram era and I believe like when a 6900 similar time
frame so this is still called the hip place to check out and people like it
for it's a graham perfect you know right you can pay your $25 and spend 15 or 16
hour day to go to the top of laguna 69 and take an Instagram picture that's
worth it to you then by all means go ahead I will tell you that the pictures
that you see online are much much nicer than laguna 69 itself i have said it a
couple times already that laguna 69 although it's very pretty looks like a
rock quarry that's filled up with crystal clear green water what i do it
again probably not i'm really glad i did it mostly for the
beautiful scenery that we saw here the tour company that we used was really
good we'll link that in the description we had no issues with them whatsoever
that's it lake 69 or laguna 69 let's go sit on the bus so I can just relax
over the next three hours driving back absolutely I'm so ready for a little nap
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