White Water Rafting 25th January

 

Back in January we spent a day battling the white water of the Urabamba River and then had a cooked lunch and sauna to warm ourselves up after a hard days work.

 

 

Ed is ready people

 

Quick briefing before heading out

 

Everyone looking up for it

 

Manuel doing some rescue demonstrations

Very choppy water

 

 

The Raging River

 

Giant dogs

 

The Team

Sandboarding Cerro Blanco

Friday the 22nd we got up at 4am for a Sandboarding trip up Cerro Blanco, the biggest Sand dune in the world at 2080 meters tall. With our tour guide Raul we set off whilst the sun was still down. Within half an hour our porter fell ill so we had to carry our own boards. Took 3 long hours to climb and was even harder in the deep sand, but was well worth the wait! Stop for lunch at the top and admired the spectacular view. We got down a lot faster than we got up.

Setting off early doors

All the lads

Quick rest

Nearly lost it taking this one

Tiredness taking effect

Raul and the view

At the bottom of the dune

Halfway point

Almost there

Kings of the hill

Descending with style

Walk back

Dip in the pool

3 course meal to top it off!

Football Tournament - 14th Feb

Us 3, Ben and Charlie - volunteers from the boys orphanage, sorted out a footie tournament with the boys. All very keen, things got underway quickly and we just about finished as the weather turned nasty. Neither of our 3 teams won which was dissappointing. 

 Ed under pressure

lovely day for it 

 a wayward pass from the big Swede 

The youngest on the field, Moses, feeling the heat 

An English challenge 

Unorthodox keeping 

Couple Random Ones

Discussing the night out

Bar dancing when in Peru!

Some other volunteers...

Ed hiding our little peruvian companion (Davis)

Our Friend hugo told us about this amazing sandwich place in San Blas calling Juanitos, and boy was he right. In English terms, the meal you can see bellow cost us 6 pounds!!

 Joe looking worried, and the only one who didnt defeate the ginormous sandwich becuase of a couple of grams of cold egg