This weekend, to start off a round of lasts with my current batch of intern students (who will be leaving the beginning of January), we decided to try another hike. Alberto did some research and planned a trip to Lomas de Lachay, a nature preserve a little more than an hour north of Lima. Alberto promised that this would be a much easier trek than the one to Palakala and was (mostly) correct.
The adventure started when the bus dropped us off at the road into the reserve and we began walking...and walking...and walking...and...realized that the road into the reserve was quite long itself. Luckily, a bus of school children picked us up and gave us a lift into the park. (We later found out that walking the whole road would have taken us an more than an hour just to get TO the park!)
One of the exciting parts of this trek was the opportunity to see native wildlife. Whereas in Palakala we saw donkeys and dogs, in Lomas we saw foxes, birds, bugs and lizards.
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| This owl was on the road into the park. Talk about an exciting start to the trek! |
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| Look closely to find the coastal fox (zorro costaño) |
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| We almost missed this lizard! |
The day started out misty, but warmed up about halfway into our trek, giving us a beautiful variety of pictures from the day.
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| Alberto, our fearless leader |
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| Resting, at what we thought was the top of the trail (it wasn't!) |
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Luis contemplating the mysteries of life.
(Actually, I have no idea, I skipped this part of the climb and took the flatter, non-mountainous short cut!) |
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| Also unique to this area are the tara trees, as seen here |
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| Los adventureros |
All in all, it was a great trip, an exciting new place, and I made through the whole trip without having a breakdown. Who knows-maybe by the time I leave Peru, I'll be an avid hiker.
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