Today we went to Llanganuco Lake, only 100 km but 3 hours away. We stopped in the town of Yunguy I believe to use the bathrooms, and while we were wandering the people were making pictures on the streets of the central plaza with flower petals for Corpus Christi. We stayed an extra 10 minutes until the procession came out of the church and walked over the images.
The lake was a glacier runoff lake and very beautiful. There was a guy with a llama with colorful tassels on, and most of us took pictures with the llama and then gave the man 1 sole each, about 35 cents. We then sat down and had lunch. On the way back we stopped in old Yunguy to see the damage caused by the mudslide after the earthquake in 1970. 30,000 people were buried in the slide. The town is mostly rebuilt, but there are still places you can see where the slide ran. I'm now ready to go into Huaraz for a massage and dinner. Tomorrow we get up very early as we have a 10 hour bus ride to Trujillo.
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