Friday, September 29, 2006

Altitude and Changing weather of Peru

This is just a short post about the changes in weather that Cath and I have experienced (here in Puno in particular)..

How the drop in altitude affects a bottle
But first here's a small photo showing the effects of going from Cusco to Arequipa (a drop of about 1,400m).. Personally I wonder what that's doing to our insides, no wonder people get altitude sickness...

On the topic of weather though, we had arrived in Puno to glorious blue skies (although a bit nippy because of the altitude), and decided to wander in and try and post about the last few days at a nearby net cafe..

While we were in said establishment a slight weather change occurred, by the time we finished and were ready to book our trip on Lake Titicaca hail stones had started to fall.. Actually it was more like hard snow, below you should see a photo of it in the street after about 15 minutes..

Luckily for us we were only a short dash away from the hostel (though we did hide out in a shop until the worst had past)...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I like the bottle - nice bit of applied physics.

Lovely photographs of the lake.