Gloria Hotel La Paz
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Bolivia deserves a Good Blogging!
La Paz- a week last Sunday( the 22nd)-daunted to be landing at 01.00 and 4000Metres with no accommodation booked until later on Sunday. Instead of hanging around the airport ´til dawn (and, surprisingly, it wasn´t actually cold-late Spring), I shared a taxi, dropping down 500Metres from the high plateau airport, into the centre of La Paz. The …
Back to La Paz - missed some things...
And here I am - back in La Paz!
This is the second time I am actually ¨coming back¨ to a place in this trip. It feels a bit like coming home... familiar smell, places and faces.
This time I am no longer alone, and I am already half through! I tried to get back to the Loki hostel but it was fully booked, so I stayed at the nice Gloria …
The heart of Bolivia
... had to go back the road looking for the bolts but could only find 3, screwed them back on and we drove off. At one point after this, we reckon we were up on 2 wheels. Thought we were goners! To recover from the bus trip, we stayed an extra day in La Paz before heading off to Copacabana, close to the Peruvian border. We were sorry that our time in Bolivia was coming to an end as we really loved the place. Peru is supposed to be amazing also so looking forward to ...
To get in the mood, set the scene...
... we had spectacular views of the city.
We spent a lazy late afternoon in the hotel planning and booking accommodation for our future stay in Puno, Peru, before going around the corner to a local restaurant that was so close, we could still access the wifi.
A jug of Sangria (too much fruit) and two chicken meals later and we headed off to bed knowing Joel would be by to pick us up for our Copacabana and sun island tour at 7.45 in the ...
La Vida Paceña (and lots of death)
... the entire neighbourhood now thinks that these jackets must be the height of fashion in Europe).
So, amidst last minute editing, grammar tweaking, technological issues (you try keeping deadlines and uploaded photos in a country where the internet is this ****), and a frenzied trip to the printing press, we managed to get another edition of the magazine out. Of course, we then had to trek round the city with huge bags of copies to distribute them manually…in the ...