Hotel Landhaus Copacabana La Paz

... group but they were all good lads and said things loke "I don´t think I´d continue if that happened to me" and the slow one who had been at the back all day and still fallen off twice (although ono the road instead of off the side of it) said "at least you fell off going fast, unlike me". Guide thought I was lucky (aka skillful) with my choice of corner to crash off, i.e. not one of the ones with a 600m vertical drop!<br><br>So I complete the ride and reached the end point. I wanted ...

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

... bill. Instead of the planned lounging about in hammocks at the best hotel in town for G's birthday, we ended up having to get the first bus south to La Paz and its cash machines.<br><br>So we are now in the highest capital of the world at 4100m, which means we once again feel like pensioners walking up any stairs, but on the plus side the slightest whiff of alcohol has a great effect. La Paz is the gateway for a number of adventures and one in particular that I have been ...

... br><br>Rurrenabaque, Bolivia - Union officials confirmed today that Hammock #1 at Hotel Oriental has officially filed a Sexual Harrassment suit. The plaintiff is rumoured to be Canadian traveler "Laynni" Locke, although common sense would suggest this is an alias. The report describes several days of excessive hammock use, sporadic and suggestive moans, The breaking point, apparently, was the result of her many suggestive and unconventional positions.<br> <br ...

... then had another wierd and scary experience when all the locals got off the bus in a small town (none of them speak english when we asked them what was going on). So the driver, the conductor and Dan &amp; I are heading out of the town onto a dirt road and away from street lights, we then see 5 guys get out of a 4WD in front of the bus. By this stage Im almost convinced this is a robbery/kidnapping and we ask to get off the bus and they dont let us. We ...

We took a couple of days to relax in La Paz and do things like get haircuts, full shave on a street near the hostel that has only barber shops on it. La Paz is a big city - like a million people or so and most of them indigenous Amerindiens so you see a lot of women in their "traditional" dress which are big poofy flowery skirts, almost like hoop skirts - and lots of layers - and a goofy looking bolo hat ...

... 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 ...

... a ticket. He paid. An Aussie mate had his laptop stolen from his room, 8 years of diary and photos on it. naveed watched the two guys that had just robbed his room leave the hotel and wish him a pleasant rest of the day! I could go on but I won't.<br><br>We finally got to la Paz around 5 in the afternoon, the sun was shining, the snow capped mountains were an amazing backdrop as we descended into the city. The city is perched at 3660 m and Mt Illamani is 6402 m, an ...

... rot with the **** they´d given us on the plane and now I was faced with the decision of where the hell to go to transit to La Paz. Sweating like a pig in a microwave, We darted from customs to the international flight connection sign and stumbled through yet another scanner with a look of non understanding and pleas for help written all over us.<br><br>We finally came to the understanding that we pick up our boarding passes 2 hours later at another desk that appeared to be ...

... of planking with holes and gaps.<br>The "barge is powered by a very small outboard engine but it gets us across, and we spot a bus being transported in the other direction so it must be OK!<br>Back up the hill and onto the Antiplano again about 50km from La Paz, we stop to talk to a rider coming towards us. It is an English biker who has been on the road 4 years and done much of the world. He hasn´t seen a British biker for several ...