Illampu

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to Sorata, Bolivia by TravelPod blogger Destin8ion. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com Trekking the Illampu Circuit "We arrived in Sorata after negotiating many more hairpins turns down into the dusty valley bottom. We were both a bit nauseous and Caroline wanted to settle herself, so I ran around and got us into a hostel right away. We spend a night and then tackled the almighty budget for what we would do for the next week. The trek that I wanted to do goes for 7 days around the Cordillera Real and the huge peak of Illampu (That´s an i as the first letter). We went to the guide association office and told him our price. He set one up much higher. We told him our price again, and told him we´d need an extra mule. Eventually he finally came down to his price, minus 100 Bolivians we´d give our arriero (mule driver) as a tip at the end. We got it all set up and would be leaving the next morning. A little surprise he threw in was that we didn't have to buy all the food ourself and use our gas and pots for cooking, the arriero would bring all that, we´d just have to buy the kerosene for the stove and the food for the 3 of us for the 7 days. Fine then. We would need a little help. The guy took us through the market and bought what food he thought we´d need within our budget and we took care of everything. The next morning we met Isaac (pronounced Eee-sac) and the 2 mules, Martin and Juan. We trekked off the first <b>...</b>