Casa Hermanos Manchego La Paz

... verkauften. Dort angekommen kaufte jeder von uns auch gleich einen Alpacka (Flos ist Braun, Nikis weiss und Joels Blau), der Niki auch einen Rucksack und der Flo noch eine Haube. Durch den Hunger getrieben setzten wir uns in ein kleines Lokal in den Innenhof der zum Glueck ueberdacht war. dort warteten wir aber so lang auf den Kellner, dass wir fast gegangen waeren und auch unser Essen kam nicht viel schnell war aber dafuer sehr gut ...

... retrouvons Flore le 24 a Uyuni pour partir en expedition dans le desert.
Photos de La Paz a venir des que possible.

Gros bisous a tous et bon week end

Point météo: changement radical avec le début du voyage - il fait pas tres chaud et des orages et tombées de greles impressionantes. Contente d´avoir pris le manteau de ski (meme si il est vert pomme et que je me la joue pas discrete dans les rues de La Paz).


WILL COMMENT SOON.

... schön gewesen.

Während das alto plano mit dem Titicacasee auf 3800m liegt, wurde La Paz auf 3600m erbaut. D.h. man fährt ziemlich lange auf einer Fläche bis es plötzlich steil abwärts geht und La Paz mit seiner Million Einwohner sich vor sich ausbreitet. Die Aussicht war einfach grandios.

Wir hatten viele Horrorgeschichten bezgl. Raubüberfällen von La Paz gehört, doch glücklicherweise gehörten wir nicht zu deren Hauptdarstellern und ...

... landed there thousands of years ago. Like many third world cities this place has sadly expanded with an outer skin of slum, but this is impressive in the fact that the dare devil slumsters build their mud abodes on canyon cliff faces. Ballsy, but i wouldnt want to be there in an earthquake.

This is the epicentre of Bolivia, a place that has had more governments than years since the conquest. A famous legend ...

... nothing dangerous and we even overtook a couple of lorries.

We then passed a checkpoint after which there was an uphill section of about 10km... so we all got back in the bus! Apparently everyone does this as cycling uphill at these altitudes would be a bit too strenuous for most people. I certainly wasn't complaining!

We then arrived at the top of the World's Most Dangerous Road proper. Here it becomes a narrow (in places less than 3m wide) gravel road with steep ...

... at the alttitude and in the heat as we crossed over barren rolling hills. It seemed locals had caught onto tourism and were charging tolls as often as possible. Once back in Copacabana I grabbed a quick bite and headed for La Paz, the highest capital in the world. I met back up with a german guy that I trekked to Machu Picchu with and today we booked a flight into the bolivian jungle and accomidations at Medidi lodge, a private animal refuge that has been ...

... hoogte van Bolivia de zolen doen splijten. Ook zijn we naar een ander hotel gegaan voor de komende veranderingen, dus nog meer afscheid nemen...

Maar daar is veel voor terug gekomen. Ninka hebben we donderdagnacht van het vliegveld opgehaald, en de nacht erna Jan Peter. We stonden klaar met een grote taxi waar een fietsdoos opgezet kon worden. Na een 25-urige reis hoefden ze ...

... to capture us all as we came past him but as we followed down a few minutes later we arrives at a scene of carnage as Javier had somehow hit an oncoming car head on. Luckily he got up with just a few cuts and bruises but the front of the car had quite a dent, yet his bike seemd okay, go figure. After that reality check we carried on down the mountain and to my surprise I had been firmly at the front of the pack, not that it was a race, but it was really fun trying to test my ...

... of cheaper places and we are here, at Hostal Austria. It needs a lick of paint, and probably new (less saggy) mattresses, but it is relatively clean and half the price of Arthy's. ok so it doesn't have a dvd rental service, or fruit soap in the bathroom but hey, it's fine.

First impressions of la Paz, Indian women wearing tall bowler hats perched very precariously on top of their heads, I keep thinking they are going to topple off! narrow, hilly streets ...

... the light. Now we were freaked out, and didn´t sleep as soundly as we´d liked to.


But in the morning it was another beautiful day to be climbing 3 passes above 15,000 to 17,000 feet. Caroline was feeling better and we made our way all day across passes, next to llama heards, down valleys, below beautiful glaciated peaks. The clouds rolled in by midday and closed up the views behind us as they followed us down the valleys. We ...