Day 50 Raqchi Ruins to a New Bushcamp

We found out early this morning that there was a roadblock of a serious nature on our route out from the next town of Sicuani which was about 20K away.  So it was decided that the trucks try to find a way around the town by going up into the hills and using smaller not so commonly used roads, while we road to Sicuani and waited for news to see if the trucks had found a way around the town.  We spent 2.5 hours in the town's plaza resting, eating  and drinking to waste the time before the message that the trucks had got around the town and were on the road beyond the roadblock.
We then road through the roadblock which was littered with burnt out tyres, rocks and other means of blocking the road.  Once we were on the otherside of the serious roadblock stuff the queue of vehicles trying to come into town from the opposite direction was spread over about 4 to 5K.  We found Didier with the lunch truck at about 52K, due to the mornings problems he had minimal lunch provisions but they were gratefully accepted!
We then continued climbing up and over our last pass, in Peru, in excess of 4000 metres, 4338 metres in fact!  On the way down I ran into a rain/hail storm with a headwind quite close to the summit.  I sheltered for a while until it passed and then continued down, but a few K from the Unschedled Bushcamp I ran into another thunderstorm of rain and hail.  This time I just carried on through it and got to the bushcamp in the sunshine but soaking wet!!  The new bushacmp was at 110K which meant that today's stage and tomorrows were effectively swapped around because today's should have been 159K but with the delay it was greatly reduced.  Went to bed after dinner very cold and just got into my sleeping bag to get warm!  Fell to sleep but was awake by midnight and the noise of the trucks all night did not help and so I only had small naps until the morning.  An eventful and unscheduled day had taken over from the scheduled stage.

Blocked trucks, rocks and burnt out tyres in the road

Riders had to negotiate through total chaos!