{"id":22382,"date":"2019-05-22T14:38:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T22:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=22382"},"modified":"2019-05-22T14:38:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T22:38:07","slug":"bolivia-climbers-acclimatizing-on-sun-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/22\/bolivia\/bolivia-climbers-acclimatizing-on-sun-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia Climbers Acclimatizing on Sun Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 22, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Our Bolivia team had the ultimate acclimatization day today, with a boat trip and gorgeous hiking on the famous Isla del Sol (Sun Island) in Lake Titicaca. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a fun trip, with some nice trails and interesting Inca ruins to explore.\u00c2\u00a0 According to the Inca legends, this island was the birthplace of the Sun God!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-22382 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sun-island-boat-to_roberto_gomez.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[22382]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sun-island-boat-to_roberto_gomez-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-22383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sun-island-boat-to_roberto_gomez-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sun-island-boat-to_roberto_gomez-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sun-island-boat-to_roberto_gomez-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sun-island-boat-to_roberto_gomez-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sun-island-boat-to_roberto_gomez.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-22383'>\n\t\t\t\tOn the boat to Sun Island (Roberto Gomez)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sun-island-hiking_roberto_gomez.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[22382]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sun-island-hiking_roberto_gomez-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-22384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sun-island-hiking_roberto_gomez-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sun-island-hiking_roberto_gomez-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sun-island-hiking_roberto_gomez.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-22384'>\n\t\t\t\tHiking Sun Island (Roberto Gomez)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now they have returned back to Copacabana for the night.\u00c2\u00a0 After two nights at 11,000 feet in La Paz and two nights at 12,500 feet at Lake Titicaca, the acclimatization is starting to kick in. Roberto reports that the team is feeling good and looking forward to going to the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow they will load up and move to Tambo Condoriri (about 14,000 feet) for more acclimatization hiking, and then the next day they go to the Condoriri Base Camp (over 15,000 feet). It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all money in the bank for their acclimatization.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 22, 2019 Our Bolivia team had the ultimate acclimatization day today, with a boat trip and gorgeous hiking on the famous Isla del Sol (Sun Island) in Lake Titicaca. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a fun trip, with some nice trails and interesting Inca ruins to explore.\u00c2\u00a0 According to the Inca legends, this island was the birthplace of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bolivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22385,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22382\/revisions\/22385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}