We woke up at 3am to catch our 4 hour bus ride to the geysers...not very fun. It was very cold when we got there. The altitude (about 14,000 feet) makes it below freezing...even during the summer so close to the equator. I could have ridden a llama up to the geysers faster than our bus. It was very bumpy and slow...but I wouldn't have changed the experience if I could! I think it is fun experiencing different things that take effort to achieve something cool...like witnessing these cool geysers.
The geysers were actually pretty cool. It was very cold out...but the geysers spit up water that was near boiling. You really had to watch your step. After the geysers we went to tour around the mountain. But the mountain had other plans.
Our bus engine shut off on a hill, and we started rolling back down. the driver had to steer the back of the bus into the sand of the mountain to stop us. We had lost a seal to our fuel tank, and we lost all our gas. Luckily, we were parked next to an oasis with grazing Alpaca to play with! I could barely run 30 meters without being exhausted from the altitude...I have never experienced anything like it.
After about an hour they called another bus to come help us. They fixed the fuel tank, loaded up the bus, and we went off to a little desert town. We lost some valuable time with the bus problems so we had to go back home.
After an early morning and a long day...the crew was pretty beat and we hit the hay.
I didn't mean to rhyme that but it just worked out really well.
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