Yesterday (Sunday) we went to Laguna 69 together with a girl from Australia. The tour was organized by hour hostel so we were conveniently picked up at the front door. When we started to talk German the Australian girl immediately joined our conversation and it turned out she was half Swiss. Very funny. From that point on we constantly changed languages from German to English to Spanish. Very confusing, but also a lot of fun.
We started on time at 6 a.m. but with a short stop to buy bread and a stop at a breakfast restaurant were we ate bread and a fried egg together with some coca tea we arrived at 10.30 at about 3900 meters. From there we had to climb up to 4600 meters. At first only Andreas (my German friend from Lima) had some problems with the altitude and in the end he made it very close to the Lagoon. I seem to have overestimated myself a bit in terms of the altitude. Its a very strange feeling to not feel exhausted at all, but still suddenly get a headache and not be able to eat anything. I should have had more water, but afterwards you always know better. I made it to the lagoon and it was just beautiful. We were quite astonished that there were just a handful of people there, even though it seems to be one of the most known tourist destinations around Huaraz.
We were quite unlucky with the weather, because in contrast to the heat people told us about, we had no sun and it was very cold. We even had some snow up at the lagoon. Still one guy did take a short swim in the water, which was supposedly about 8 degrees.
Because of the cold we just stayed a few minutes to enjoy the beauty. While descending I felt very bad and was just hoping it would get better back in Huaraz. It did although a slight headache remained.
Since Andreas had to catch his Lima-bound bus in the night we grabbed some good food in a touristy restaurant right at the main square, the quinua soup was delicious. Afterwards I fell into bed exhausted.

The next day there was no trek (not enough people), so I thought about what to do and ended up going to the thermal baths again with 5 chicas from the hostel. We had nice weather and enjoyed it a lot. Pia, the Swiss-Australian girl was also going and afterwards we went to a nice restaurant and the legendary Cafe Andina (perfect hot chocolates!). There she met a Peruvian guy who persuaded us to start a three-day tour tomorrow. We will go together with a French girl, so we will be three tourists and two guides. The price is quite expensive, but includes everything and they promised us the only tourists we will meet along the way will be Lamas
Since I planned to leave Huaraz one day earlier already, I will have to take the bus to Trujillo right when we come back on Thursday.