Scotland comes to Peru!

The day of 2 halves.

First Half. Today saw the team immerse itself into ancient Peruvian culture with a visit to Chavin de Huantar – the site of a remote Peruvian temple dating backing to 1200BC. After a brief visit to the museum we moved to the site of the ancient temple buildings in awe of the construction methods used so long ago. The site has various parts including numerous underground passages as seen below.

The ancient site of Chavin

The team in one of the many underground passages.

Second Half. The day could not be all culture so to make use of driving over the high Andes pass at 4516m, we completed a route around Laguna Querococha. The distant memories of the Scottish training exercise (wind, rain and bogs) were soon fresh in our minds with swirling mists and a lock or laguna all in sight. Despite only being a short distance, the trek was between 4200-4000m, meaning at this stage of the expedition it was plenty far enough!

L-R: LCpl Bayliss, Spr Sheldon and Cpl Berry in the Scottish, wrong, Peruvian Andes.

Spr Sheldon (in shorts!), Cpl Berry and Spr Dalley with the laguna behind.

Spr Roslyn striding on at 4000m.