the first.Got up good and early unlike everyone else. Thwarted. can’t get at bikes which are under lock and key. So. Got Egg baps from same place as night before with the same staff and waited. Panic as cars and lorries are moving through the roadblock and as we arrive we are given the red ping-pong bat by the traffic girl.we drive through to a shrug. When we get to the blockage we discover a line of large Lorrys and some cars and we weasel our way too quite near the front. You actually can’t get to the front. The road is so narrow you can,t edge past the lorries. The whole side of the mountain is light yellow at this point and just made of some mineral that wouldn’t stay where it is. So basically the side of the mountain is continuously falling down and obliterating the road so there is a digger which is a bit faster than the mountain and when it has gained enough perhaps one Lorry or a few Lorrys can get through although the mountain never stops collapsing. Officials say it’s nearly clear – some people say you can take the little track on the other side of the valley. A lorry driver says that no one is going anywhere today so we try the little track and as we draw even Suddenly whoosh they are away. Damn. but we get a terrifying little video of the lorries going over the tiny crumbling road. Twice we thought the Lorrys were a gonner. But then we had to backtrack and wait for the lorries to come through from the other side with the road filling up again. We were the last through as we were thinner ,but the mountain was still in full Avalanch. on the bits with no Cliff rocks were shooting across the road and where there were you had to hug the inside so that the Rocks dropped past and over you. A terrified man dodging rocks frantically gesticulated to us for us to go through fast and held up four fingers. You’ve got four! We never found out what we had four of but rushed it. I got hit on the arm quite hard but annoyingly had no heroic bruise to show for it and Susie said she had a rock for an aft that would have had her. The whole thing was very fast and suddenly we were through and when we went past the Digger every window was smashed and there was an absolute hero inside who was going to sleep exhausted and then onto a totally beautiful road with no traffic on it. Thank God.The tiny road was cut into the side of the cliff with a sheer drop on one side the whole way along it and and many shrines to the motorists who had plunged over the side and died. I felt that in this part of Peru it was very difficult to find a bit of Peru that you couldn’t fall off . We read that night that the road was classed as exceptionally dangerous which we hadn’t realized when we went down it . We had a fantastic downhill down a long valley to Anca and one of our nicest hostals so far. Adolescent kids doing a school project. The daughter opened the high and totally unmarked steel door and just howled with laughter when she saw me as I was so tall for them. Room on to Courtyard milling with chickens so we did a lot of washing and finished a picnic supper . total Night Out in Anca and a great place to stay cost 7 pounds.