so we're starting out somewhere super great today we're heading up to the famous
montaña de siete colores or rainbow mountains in Peru we're super excited to go up whoa did you get
a load of that guy i was yeah chatting it up with the quechua man he said we could spend the night
so perfect oh he was impressed we had a cat and a dog and and whatnot people over in their tour bus
are having altitude sickness so we're gonna have to be careful eat some coca leaves coca tea i'm
gonna make a coca tea whenever we get back down it's uh 15 700 feet and so i'm guessing that up
there has got to be 16 200. so we're gonna go show you guys some amazing views over at this beautiful
mountain the reason we're at the alternative is because for the past month normal rainbow
mountain has been closed because two communities haven't been able to agree on a price or who gets
how much money we actually did try and go to that melon and they still said they're brave problems
yeah some bad problems between the community members so instead we're gonna check out this one
which we're super excited about our friends have already been here and they said it was amazing
if you don't want it right there like they're all kind of rainbow yeah
you started it somebody
the van has a new high score for how high we've been in this beast 15 800 feet elevation tonight
and not only have we driven that high we're gonna sleep up here but this is a really really
beautiful place it's called polgoya and it has a bunch of rainbow colored mountains we're so
excited we got to check it out and the hike here is really not that bad because we've already
driven up to fifteen thousand eight hundred feet i think the height goes up to sixteen three it's
pretty high elevation but what a stunning sight this all used to be covered with glaciers and now
that they've receded you can see these different minerals that have left lines and it really does
look rainbowy what's insane is that it's not just one mountain here i think we probably counted six
at least we are so high up here you can see 360 degrees super far once you do this hike it's just
the best view i mean this might be the best view i've ever seen in my life and i'm really
just happy that we were able to come up here even more importantly there's nobody here
yeah we picked the perfect time to head up around two o'clock so that all of the tour buses had
left and we were the only people on the rainbow mountain we just feel really lucky to have a van
and to be able to do this stuff this has got to be one of the best places in peru we've gone so far
you see plenty of snow-capped peaks off in the distance the biggest one is aosangate is
actually back the way we came a bit the road to it but i'm really thinking now we have to turn
around wow it's beautiful right yeah osangate is a crazy looking mountain i feel like the ridge to
the top of al sangate could just go forever such an enormous glacier even from this distance that
if we were to drive up underneath there there's some hikes you can do there's hot springs and the
mountain would just be towering overhead really thinking that might be our next move you'll see in
a couple minutes i don't know yet have some dinner yeah let's do it making some teriyaki veggies and
tofu yeah we're not gonna starve no definitely not a lot of food oh rice too white rice yeah
this is the most extreme night that we've ever had in the van
because of this altitude it is very very high up here that makes it harder for us to live and
also it's a lot colder so to combat both of those things we're going to make ourselves some coca tea
which helps with the altitude as well as tea being warm and nice for the cold this is a good way to
mildly help with your altitude sickness i don't think it has a very strong effect but it does
help a bit whenever you're not feeling too well proven way to help with your altitude sickness
is to chew on some coca leaves yeah he's got him in his mouth right now two slowest so that was 60
cents but the bag was like that big this enormous 100 pack of cocoa tea was also only 10 soles
three dollars and fifty cents right now in the van it is 57 degrees and i am the luckiest
lady ever because jenny already warmed me up the thermal bladder so i've been holding this gracias
what's funny about this altitude when you're making the tea or boiling the water for this
is that it takes a lot longer to boil water too we've acclimated pretty well so we're hoping it's
gonna be okay but yeah this is gonna be one of the most extreme nights we've ever had in the van
grimm keeps warm by sleeping under the covers and he's also in his little ball
right here everywhere is graham's land so we're not really worried he usually crawls underneath
or something like that somebody the game's warm with her nice big sleeping bag what is nudges
but the number one is this down comforter it has always kept us warm in some crazy cold places
so we know we're always gonna be okay so wishes look we'll tell you how it goes in the morning
good night morning when it came to the sleeping emily was far more successful i was just gasping
for air most of the time i don't feel like i slept much had some daydreams at least this morning when
i saw a little bit of light through the the roof vent fan i thought what the heck might as well
get out here you know before the tourist buses arrive i think it's only seven and the first
one probably gets here at 8 30. i got all this beauty to myself except for this little dog here
it's been following us around let's check it out with the morning light
see how it looks you know when you see this rainbow mountain and the other one in pictures
all the tour groups and stuff they really turn up the saturation i really love it especially being
here alone it just feels like real nature you know it is a bit rough with the elevation and the lack
of sleep i was up a little late working on this new kind of a video i have a virtual reality
headset so i've been learning to program for it but i'm going to make my first virtual reality
video basically this hike you know you can look all around see what you want to look at if you
want to check out my first vr video head on over to the vanderson's vr channel it's pretty sweet
well there's the main rainbow mountain over here and it's not as colorful with
the frost but still just a beautiful effect i can tell there's not a single tourist bus
that's arrived there's not a single person hiking up except for this guy with his alpaca
the alpaca's name is gondrillo gondorillo
well looks like people are getting here now so i'm just gonna chill here and read this book
into the wild in spanish given to me by my friend mario who invited me on that trek
so
wow you guys this place has gotten swamped so many people now there's a line to the rainbow mountain
it's time for the van people to get out of here hopefully on the way down there won't be too much
hectic crossing of tour buses yeah we'll see how it goes let's get out of here
since i woke up i can finally see
well the drive hasn't been too bad coming down and this is actually the spot we
spent the night coming up it's kind of a nice little spot here with the river it's got some
sand that graham's loving to play in and you know some re-ticking kind of run around a bit
as well as being free and there's really no traffic at night so it's a good spot so since
it is coming down so far it's a good idea to rest the brakes so we're gonna have a little lunch here
and continue onward after thanks for checking on the brakes graham you demand little buddy
thanks for cooking
news is we did decide to head to the asengata area
these mountains are beautiful tonight we're gonna sleep with an epic view emily's working on the
next video for you guys so i'm cooking up the dinner but check out these moans
it's been really cool going through all these little towns and and buying stuff
for super cheap we got some veggies like a whole bag for nine sold three dollars
less than three dollars a whole bag of 10 breads for 60 cents a roll of toilet paper was 30 cents
but uh yeah getting a little bit hectic in here kind of oh we could have parked right there
and we definitely found this town with like a huge market here so it's gonna be pretty
sweet check this out we'll show you guys what a traditional little quechua in town up here
and the andes altiplano looks like and everything is just really good price over here plus you got
some epic views of the mountain that we're getting closer and closer to osangate where we hope to do
some kind of a hike experience and really get close to that thing but wow yeah very
hectic trying to weave our way through this town but now we should get to enjoy it in a moment
it's a sad sad day i cannot find peanut butter
yeah we're giving up on finding peanut butter here in this traditional little town and for
some reason they're not letting people in the main plaza i guess there's a ceremony going on emily
you're feeling i'm feeling tall just for reference i'm five foot one and i'm traveling over everyone
so this is pretty crazy yeah it's really hard to decide what to eat though because i see all these
street food and then they got these chicken places we'll see how we rustle up over here
foreign
get out of here
oh my gosh oh that was insane that was a nail biter for sure i thought the van was gonna stop
i didn't think we were gonna make it have a steep
rock just like just like trying to get up on marbles they're supposed to be here some kind
of like a checkpoint this should take us to pachanta which will be right below asangate
hopefully the road doesn't get any crazier than that that was insane oh my gosh so far full bars
lte but we got a distance to go so this road is so much better i don't know why i took that away
well everything's new for us no big deal oh whoa but you got these views this is gonna be
so sick if these clouds lift oh they're yeah chilling in the hot spring with that view
somewhere very special
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there it is our first field view oh i love it now that is a mountain ausangate
yeah so this is the bridge that we would have to cross
if we're gonna go for this spot with a view otherwise we can stay for free
over at this guy's restaurant so this bridge has rocks underneath oh does it wow
wow
let's test it out
what do you think
so that guy says he crossed it yeah that guy says he crosses it like normal
that convinced me are you kidding me that car just like lifted that lama is lifting up all the
all the things see the issue is this hill obscures the view of the mountain from the other spot and
i'd like a nice view graham's filling it out what do you think little guy too many
doggies we hope you enjoyed rainbow mountain as much as we did are we going to head on an
asangate trek or just a hike make a guess in the comments if you'd like to get us at
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