Since then we did three treks together and it has always happened something:
1) in Ausangate our guide abandoned us on the last day forcing us to carry our bags for the last 10 kms (that luckily were flat).
We then met in La Paz for two other treks:
2) the first in Sorrata, supposedly a great place to trek which reminded me of the South of Colombia but less nice. The event on the day we went to an high altitude lake was that when we came back we got problems with two heavily drunk miners of the small village that makes the departure and the end of the trek. To avoid more problems that some endless and fuitless discussions with some idiots determined to get money from us we paid them little and went away because one never knows where this could end with drunk people feeling they are above the laws. The incident reflects both the racism of a part of the Bolivian popuplation toward foreigners and a change of attitude of some people since Bolivia has an indigeneous president.
3) the last rek was a 2 days descent of an Inca trail through a rain forest. It was really humid with dense vegetation. I would have been happy with a machete! We were a group of 6 when our guide (the one of us who had done this trek 4 times) slipped on a wooden bridge and fell 4 meters as well as banged his head on a rock and did himself s deep cut. This was the end of the rek and luckily after the help of one of us who is a doctor he could come back to the start and get treated at the hospital.
The bridge
and under the bridge...
The conclusion of all this is that Aurore and I decided no to trek anymore together.
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