Europa Hotel La Paz

... I must have taken a corner a wee bit too fast (for sure it was very close and if the road was about 10cm wider I would have made it). I don´t think I hit anything to put me off track, there was just insufficient grip in the wet gravelly conitions.<br><br>I realised I wasnt going to make the corner and had one of those slow-motion moments, like at paintball where I took a face shot once and tracked the ball all the way from barrel to mask but just didn´t have time to get out ...

I don't so much expect such a strong wind as I arrive at the Tiwanacu railway station. Well, I think no trains actually arrive there, because the Ferrocarril Transandina has been out of service for a good few years due to the terrorist attacks of the Camino Luminoso. Anyway, the station is well kept and provides with a tinge of authencity to the archeological site of Tiwanacu aka ...

Bilbo had his second ferry trip across the straits of Tiquina to cross from Copacabana toward La Paz. You really need to see the photos to appreciate this which I hope to be able to upload soon when I have finished crashing internet cafe pcs!<br><br>We turned up at the port, basically you enter a queue (which consisted of one vehicle, us on this occasion) and are then filtered to the next awaiting ferry to get across. This is not the Pride of Bilbao, am not sure the ...

Vers 10h nous partons pour le cimetiere de La Paz d'ou partent les minis pour Tiwanaku (3950 m) a 2h de La Paz (1 euros). Dans le bus la cholitas a mes cotes s'ecroule literalement sur moi en s'endormant. En arrivant nous visitons ce petit village et dejeunons (0.50 euros pour le repas) avant de se rendre aux ruines. La culture de Tiwanaku est apparue vers 600 av.JC, le site date de 700 et la civilisation s'est eteinte vers 1200. Selon certains historiens les Incas serait issus d ...

Here's the wonderful story of how we got to copacobana: 1. Bought our bus ticket from Arequipa to Puno. I knew that the buses all left in the morning and so instead of wasting a whole day in puno (a HOLE!) we took the 1am out of arequipa option. Of course we had to check out early and spent the whole day roaming the city entertaining ouselves. 2. Got to the bus station and sat in the waiting lounge ...

After we reached the frontera of Peru/Bolivia, our cab driver stopped, and dumped us out. We were just on the edge of the frontera, and I guess he couldn't cross into Peru. So, Waldo and I took a biketaxi, which stopped at migracion of Bolivia first, where I stamped out, and then carted us down the ...