High in the Andes for some delicious Trout

Dear Family and Friends,

We have been home from the U.S. for about a month now.  We decided it was time to take a short day trip into the mountains.  Chuck took Puff Puff to get bathed and we invited our neighbor and friend, Joyce, to come along on the adventure.  

We only have to drive about 30 to 40 minutes to reach 13,500 ft.  We live at 8,000 ft, so climbing that high is pretty much a steady uphill drive.  We have a nice highway and since we live on the west side of the city, we are into the countryside pretty quickly.

Our destination was Dos Chorreras, a restaurant and hosteria about halfway to the summit, to have their specialty, mountain trout.

In the years we have lived here this place has grown in size and popularity.  It is quite awesome.

Here are some pictures to share of our trip.  

Our nice clean Puff Puff.  

Beautiful scenery we never get tired of.

We were lucky to find a large number of llamas having fun and holding up traffic.  They own the road you know.

When we got to the pass, we were at 13,500 ft.  We parked and got out of Puff Puff and walked a ways to see the mountains from above.  This land is protected, along with the Llamas, in Cajas National Park.  

Look ma, I'm standing on the edge with "no hands."

This is the sign at the top of the look out.  It is called the Lookout of the Three Crosses.  All those stickers that are on it, have been placed by previous visitors, sort of like a calling card.

After messing around on the top, we got back into Puff Puff and headed back down to the restaurant.  Dos Chorreras is located just outside the Cajas National Park.  The setting is awesome.

Here is Chuck and Joyce heading inside.

This is our friend, Joyce.  

We all ordered our favorite presentation of trout.  Now this is the embarrassing part, when the food came, the photographer, just gobbled it up and did not even think of taking photos.  

I came back alive after we finished eating and were on our way out of the restaurant.  You enter and leave through their huge gift shop.

Here are a few pictures from the gift shop.  This is a great place to take visitors for souvenir shopping.  They have high quality goods.

We were only gone about three hours, but when we got home we felt great, like we had really been out of town.

We have been passing time walking and staying healthy.  We are so happy to be back in paradise.

Until next time..

Love,

Nancy