Day 40 Chincheros to Andahuaylas

Another fine day greeted us and we were still on un-paved roads and immediately started climbing from the town. 40K of climbing awaited us but it was made worse today as we had to pass through large amounts of road workings. As we climbed there were trucks going up and down to the main road works, which meant you were almost always in a fog of dust and exhaust fumes. The end of these un-paved days made you think your nose had become a brick production factory!! Luckily after about 2/3rds of the climb the main workings were over and it was a bit more pleasant to complete the climb to lunch. The road surface had varied between fairly smooth compacted dirt to gravel, sand, dust and mud in any combination!
After lunch we expected a reasonable descent to the hotel, wrong!! It was full of road works, deviations and people with Stop/Go boards making progress as slow as possible. It was a rubbish descent, and we are all convinced that between us we found about 5 different ways down to the hotel which was going to be our home for another rest day.