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You will need to have your own comprehensive insurance, covering adventure
travel. You need to understand that you are renting the services of a
guide, horses and equipment, but making the trip on your own responsibility.
Below this page we refer to an insurance company. We do not endorse this company or offer any guarantee but they seem to offer the kind of insurance that is useful, and cover all ages up to 75 which is not always easy to find.
Rates of exchange at www.oanda.com
What to bring:
One day rides:
jeans, long sleeved cotton shirt, sunglasses - wraparound if possibel, wide-brimmed hat, sunblock, trainers or boots. Gloves if you like. Something to bathe in.
Long rides:
The main thing is don't bring too much. Non- ride clothes can be left safe keeping below. For the ride itself, it is easy to wash clothes and they dry in half an hour. So Travel Wash rather than items of clothing. Try and organise that one brings shampoo and one Travel wash etc. Don't all bring everything. It all has to be carried on mules and an extra mule is expensive!
Having said that, it is good to have 1 full change, including trousers.
For riding - long rides. (We can hire out some of these items so check with us if necessary):
Hat with wide brim and chin strap - it is windy. We can lend a few, but those who have them, please bring.
Wrap around sunglasses
Penknife is useful if you have one, but not essential
Long sleeved shirt over tshirt for riding
Jodhpurs are the most comfortable but jeans will do. Second pair of trousers/skirt for evenings (not to dress up! Just to get out of sweaty clothes)
Chaps, not essential but add to comfort
On long rides we always use padded bicycling pants but these rides are quite gentle - up to you
Gloves. Your hands get dry and cracked otherwise
Scarf for neck and dust
Water bottle
Highest block factor suncream that you can buy. Also lip stuff
Footwear: trainers or walking boots are ok. It is a slight problem as they stick on the stirrups, and for serious riding the arrieros wear smooth-soled boots with heels, (as in England) but they are no good when you get off the horse so people usually just wear whatever is comfortable.
We will provide saddle bags for water bottle, camera and jersey or fleece
For the evening and night
TORCH - the head torches are excellent
Thermal underwear incl longjohns
A good jersey
A thick fleece and/or a down-type jacket
A woolly hat and scarf
A top grade sleeping bag and even a liner if you can borrow one. We can rent sleeping bags to you and one or 2 liners for those who feel the cold, also a spare blanket to each
A thermarest type mattress.
It is ok to bring a hot water bottle
A towel - camping style if poss
General
*The bathing is magnificent but icy. Bring bathing togs and flipflops or jelly shoes.
We will provide beer, wine and pisco sour but it's ok to bring some whiskey or whatever you fancy, to boost the alchohol levels.
Soft bag for loading on mules if poss - not a hardbacked wheelie or anything. 2 small bags better than one large, but either is ok.
**A little ready cash to pay the hotel, if that is included in you trip, but they also take credit cards. And for a tip for the guides at the end. Otherwise no opportunities for shopping therapy.
*This is the Bano Morales ride, but we always try to find a place to bathe if possible on the lower rides as well
**The hotel doesn't apply to short rides.
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