Gloria La Paz

... Unfortunately I would come to stretch them a little too far because about 5km from the bottom I was steaming around a corner, luckily left had bend with cliff on my left, and I remember seeing the 2 crazy Brasilian dudes to my right, next thing I know I´m lying on the gravel face first with a bike up my ****. I managed to get myself up as the rest of the pack whizzed past and Javier came in from the back of the group and summoned the minibus down so that he could patch me ...

... university diplomas, babies, animals, buses. The idea is that your ‘wishes’ is made up into a basket with the lucky idol, sweets, herbs and colourful llama wool, and is then blessed by a Yatiri, an Aymara priest. Following this ritual the item will be yours in a year! The llama foetus brings added luck for wishes related to agriculture, good harvets, rains etc. if added to the mix. If you have a house built a llama foetus with all its fur is ...

... sandwich (!)... transferred to our la paz flight and set off - al set off the security machines again & a guy from a Peruvian sports tour collapsed in the queue! the flight to Lima was nearly 13 hours, which we spent sleeping, eating, watching films - i saw three in the end, wandering to and from the loo and kicking the lady´s chair in front of me, she was really annoying - she just kept pushing her seat back, especially when i had food or drink on my little ...

... in our new surrounds. For me, one of the most striking elements of Bolivia was witnessing the dress and sheer numbers of the country’s native population, the highest percentage of any country in South America. Although we’d become accustomed to native women with braids in their hair and puffy skirts, the Bolivian look was by far and away the most interesting. In addition to sporting traditional long braids, these women wore wonderful adornments at the end of ...

... hat person but this grey alpaca one seemed ok, and was a necessity for Uyuni. Nicki and Claire purchased some earrings. I think we then went to San Pedro prison to see what was going on there. This prison is rather unique and infamous in that only has guards on the front gate; aside from this, the prisoners work for money and pretty much run things themselves.Therefore poor people have to make do with hideous hovel-like cells, or lurk in the corridors, whereas rich people have pimped ...

Just a couple of days in La Paz and not too much doing really. A look round the markets, you could the whole city is a market, there´s clearly no regulation or licences and people just sell whatever they have wherever they happen to sit down. You can see why it´s South America´s poorest country, people sell nothing for nothing. It´s a hand to mouth existence. There must be 1000 men on the streets just shining peoples shoes, even young boys are involved and ...

... licu. Ma ludilo! Platila bih i vise od toga jer mi je bilo prepredobro i samu sam sebe iznenadila jer sam isla brzo i jer sam uzivala iako sam u par navrata racionalizirala i razmisljala o tome kako je to sve glupo doci tu i tako riskirati svoj zivot na takav nacin :D

Na kraju puta nas je cekao vruci tus i super rucak u hotelu te je grupa poslije toga otisla nazad u La Paz, a Leon i ja u hostel u Coroicu, gradicu 17h od dzungle.

... br>


Zum Schluss kommt noch einmal eine vor allem mentale Herausforderung.
An einem Fixseil überwinden wir die letzten 180 Hoehenmeter bis zum Gipfel.








Nach fast 7 stuendigem Aufstieg sind wir am Gipfel ...

... guess our judgement may have been slightly impaired.
After counting down since January, we finally made it to Santiago where Shan joined our tour. Shan got to meet everyone at our farewell dinner for the people that were leaving us, and then the next night, we... ok I... got so drunk I can't remember the night. I supposedly ordered Shannon a beef burger, even though she's vegetarian.. great friend I am! I also slapped someone from my tour and told him he was a good boy.. and the ...