The climb gets steep and unrelenting. You are ascending toward the first pass. We get to Llullucha, and we camp there. Tea and snack time. Then we have time for rest.
Second day Wake up with a hot cup of tea.
Before the walking we provide you a snack and bottle of coca tea. Upstream is the Llullucha. Both valleys are steep-sided and and densely forested. Follow the trail up the leftbank fork for roughly 500m beyond the confluence, then leave this trail to the fight and descend to a log bridge across the stream. Notice traces of ancient steps at the head of the pass, the first unmistakable signs that you are following a pre-Columbian highway.