{"id":7675,"date":"2012-08-08T07:44:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=7675"},"modified":"2012-08-08T07:44:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T15:44:18","slug":"acclimatizing-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/08\/bolivia\/acclimatizing-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Acclimatizing On The Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 8, 2012<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7675 gallery-columns-2 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\/2012\/08\/Altiplano-with-Illimani.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[7675]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Altiplano-with-Illimani-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7676\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7676'>\n\t\t\t\tPanorama of the Altiplano with Illimani, Huayna Potosi and Condoriri\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\/2012\/08\/Lake-Titicaca.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[7675]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Lake-Titicaca-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7677\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7677'>\n\t\t\t\tPanorama of Lake Titicaca with Sun Island on the right and Peru in the distance\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Today we drove from La Paz up onto the Altiplano to the resort town of Copacabana on the shore of Lake Titicaca (12,507 feet \/ 3,812 m). \u00c2\u00a0Along the way we had the chance to visit the famous Tiahuanaco ruins (dated 1600 BC).\u00c2\u00a0 This afternoon the team took a nice (slow!) walk around Copacabana\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6we are now over 12,000 feet. \u00c2\u00a0When we saw the sun beginning to go down we headed up a nearby hill for a little more acclimatization and a chance to see the sunset.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was a gorgeous day, with not a cloud in the sky.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow, we will take a short boat trip to Sun Island to continue acclimatization and have lunch on the shore with some local food. \u00c2\u00a0All is well here in Bolivia. \u00c2\u00a0Acclimatizing on the beach!<\/p>\n<p>Greg Vernovage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 8, 2012 Today we drove from La Paz up onto the Altiplano to the resort town of Copacabana on the shore of Lake Titicaca (12,507 feet \/ 3,812 m). \u00c2\u00a0Along the way we had the chance to visit the famous Tiahuanaco ruins (dated 1600 BC).\u00c2\u00a0 This afternoon the team took a nice (slow!) walk [&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-7675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bolivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675","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=7675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7680,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions\/7680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}