{"id":4297,"date":"2011-08-10T08:56:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T16:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2011-08-10T09:05:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T17:05:01","slug":"acclimatization-at-lake-titicaca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/10\/bolivia\/acclimatization-at-lake-titicaca\/","title":{"rendered":"Acclimatization At Lake Titicaca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 10, 2011<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4297 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><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\/2011\/08\/PB070460.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4297]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PB070460-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4300\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4300'>\n\t\t\t\tLake Titicaca. (Photo by Greg Vernovage)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PB060419.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4297]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PB060419-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4299\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4299'>\n\t\t\t\tInca Ruins. (Photo by Greg Vernovage)\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\/2011\/08\/PB080468.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4297]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PB080468-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4298\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4298'>\n\t\t\t\tAymara reed boat builder at Lake Titicaca. (Photo by Greg Vernovage)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>There  are not many places where you can acclimatize for high altitude climbing by  going to the beach!\u00c2\u00a0 Lake Titicaca (12,506 feet \/ 3,812 meters) is that place.\u00c2\u00a0  Yesterday the team travelled to the resort town of Copacabana on the shore of  the Lake, and today they took the ferry to the Isla del Sol (Island of the  Sun).\u00c2\u00a0 In the Inca religion, the god of the sun was born on this island, and  there are many Inca ruins in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow,  the team head for Huayna Potosi, and the climbing begins!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 10, 2011 There are not many places where you can acclimatize for high altitude climbing by going to the beach!\u00c2\u00a0 Lake Titicaca (12,506 feet \/ 3,812 meters) is that place.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday the team travelled to the resort town of Copacabana on the shore of the Lake, and today they took the ferry to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bolivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4303,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}