A long drive to Lima

We had 400km to cover today to get to Lima, so it was another early start.  We had breakfast at 6.15am and were on the road by 7.  

We had to cross the mountains, so we remained at an altitude of over 3000 metres for the first three hours of the journey.  The scenery was spectacular!  Many of the houses in the remote mountain villages we drove through were selling homemade cheese, presumably made with sheep milk judging by the number of sheep we saw.  We drove along hair-raising roads with hundreds of hairpin bends.  It was an exhilarating ride, and Ritchie drove superbly.Read more