Panamerican La Paz

... Das Loki war ein wirklich leiwandes Hostel. Es ist verdammt gross, es wird von anderen Backpackern gefuehrt die dort fuer ein paar Wochen arbeiten und dafuer die Uebernachtung und das Essen gratis bekommen und es hat eine verdammt grosse Bar (wo man dann natuerlich auch viel Zeit verbringt. haha). Wir stellten aber nur schnell unser Gepaeck ab, weil wir unbedingt zu den ganzen kleinen Geschaeften wollten wo sie Alpackas, Ringe und ...

... while you are here, bolivia is a cheap place but the importance of language, customs, etc. can make your coming a litlte bit difficult. i can give you free information, spanish lessons, etc.
To me is very important to help people because i have strong values and do not be afraid of making contact to me, bye take care.

... e au lit pour moi - toujours pas zi grande forme. (au moins je ne perds pas totalement mon temps et bouquine des nouvelles en espagnol).
Seb ira faire une partie de football avec des locaux et reviendra épuisé (dur dur le footing a 3600m).
Re couscous ce soir - l´appétit se fait petit - décidément nous gringos avons du mal a vivre dans les nuages.
Nous partons demain pour Sucre (impatiente de voir cette ville que j´ai pu découvrir via mes cours a la fac) et ...

... La Paz is so polluted its horrible and walking the streets as they are all on hills at this altitude really kills you very quickly.

The witches market was interesting now it was open - they were selling Llama fetuses - supposedly you put one under your house before you build it for luck.. they smell pretty bad!

... finally got on our bikes.

In total we descended 3,600m in 4-5 hours and "cycled" (I just rolled) about 70km. We began on a tarmacced road that wound down the misty mountain with some dramatic views of steep rocky cliffs and icy summits. However, I didn't get a very good look at all this due to the high speed at which I was travelling! We whizzed down in this manner for a good hour or so and I was getting quite into the speed and bends and stuff. There was a little traffic ...

... Canadian, but after walking up and down looking for hotels for half an hour with them I chose to stay at a beautiful little place on the water where I could watch the sunset. It was expensive for Bolivia but still under seven dollars with breakfast. I awoke early againthe next morining and headed to the Isla del Sol. The birthplace of the Inca Empire. After looking in the museum and checkin out the ruins I headed towards the southern port. A challenging ...

In La Paz is er voor ons al veel veranderd en gaat er nog meer veranderen.

James en Johanna zijn naar het Titikaka-meer gegaan, dus voor ons meer ons best doen op ons Spaans en maar vooral een lastig afscheid. Misschien zien we elkaar over 3 maanden weer, maar daar over later meer. Kyra heeft afscheid moeten nemen van haar oude vertrouwde schoenen. Na negen jaar trouwe dienst heeft ...

... and wide sweeping corners allowing some serious speed to be gained. It was hard not to take a peak over the sides as I gained confidence nailing the corners but after a while you just learned to forget that you were on the side of a mountain. The ride was broken down into sections, after each one we stopped in a passing place to allow everyone to catch up. About an hour from the end of the ride one of the guides, Javier, had moved on ahead to get into position for the video ...

... kind of thing. We didn't, we value our sleep. We ended up at Arthy's Guesthouse, just down from the bus station. It's a lovely place, very clean, lovely little kitchen, shared facilities also very clean, but, it was 63 Bs, that's almost 10 usd EACH. We treated ourselves last night because we were knackered and couldn't be bothered to struggle around the traffic choked streets of la Paz at rush hour trying to find somewhere cheaper. So this morning we set out and tried a ...

... slept in a paranoid state as our tent was closed in by sounds of someone outside. We then saw what looked like a light from a flashlight go across our tent. Caroline, with the bigger cahones of the 2 of us, got out with her book light and searched the perimeter only to find a viscacha in our kitchen area, which probably made the sounds on the rocks as it went for leftover food scraps. We laughed it off and went back to bed before I thought ...