The Santa Cruz Trek is one of the most well know and popular treks in all of South America. It is a Four to Six day trek depending on how fast you go and how many side trips you might take.
We started with the early on Thursday taking a colectivo (or twenty passenger van) and then a taxi to the start of the trek. We started at a post with a group of locals standing by asking if we needed donkeys to carry our bags when we said no thank you the head guy preceded to tell Tim, well within ear shot of me, that I would not be strong enough to do it that I would definitely need a Donkey to carry my bag over the pass. We then were told we had to pay a toll fee to pass through the 1000ft of town before reaching the National Forest. We paid and then were on our way however within a few moments we were all suffering from the incredible heat. Eve finally changed into unzipped rain panty and walked on in this fashion despite the looks of other gringos and the incredible number of biting flies. I spent most of the first day sweating out the water Tim was encouraging me to drink and praying for shade from the few clouds in the sky. In the end of the day we camped at a camp site with many other trekkers and slept like the dead.
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