Heart Attack on a Plate

More commonly known as Chorrillanos. We went local again for lunch but were fed up of empanadas. Basically its a plate of fried potatoes, onion, red meat, chicken and sausages all topped off with two fried eggs. We didn't know what it was when we ordered it and we shared one. We ate half of it 7 hours ago and still can't think about food for dinner. We do have a photo but we felt too ill looking at it to post it!

Anyway, reason for lunch blow out was that we were up at 03.30 for a 4am pick up to get up to the highest geyser field in the world El Tatio Geysers. Very cool and nowhere near as smelly as the ones we saw in Iceland which was good as a 6am Kay stomach with rotten egg smell at altitude is probably not a good combination. On the way back down from 4320m we stopped off at a little village called Machuca - population 40 where Martyn made friends with a local chap called Miguel. We have no idea what he was saying to us. We think we managed to converse about the fact we had been to the geysers and hadn't been for a swim in the geothermal pools because it was -6 and quite frankly too cold. But he could have been telling us about his llama herd to be quite honest! Although we are fairly sure he mentioned water. He seemed to like the kiss on the cheek Kay gave him anyway.

After that it was off to a nice little canyon with cacti in it which we wandered through for half an hour. Some nice photos to post later. These cacti grow 2cms a year so some of them must have been 200 - 300 years old! They were cool.
Back in time for massive lunch as previously mentioned. We ate with the biggest dog we have ever seen guarding over us - certainly a contender for the hound of the baskervilles I think I upset him by not giving him any sausage but he let me out the eatery so all is well!

Whoever 'anonymous' was who posted that Martyn looks like he is losing weight on all the ice cream - he loves you dearly and says he did his best to make up for it with the heart attack on a plate today. He's whinging as apparently I only let him have an orange lolly instead of another ice cream for pudding!

Wow - room service tomorrow - little lady at hostal has just been by, we think to say its her day off tomorrow so can she bring us breakfast on a tray at 8am. Fab. Always assuming that is what she said of course....