Presidente La Paz

... t going fast enough"

A truely fantastic day, which we all celebrated by drink a nice ice cold beer in the swimming pool at the end of the DEATH ROAD!!!! An amazing experience.

Time for a little shopping in La Paz on day two in the city after joining up with our new tour group, can´t believe we are on our 3rd group already.

We are heading off from Laz Paz towards Cochabamba on Friday so as we always say...

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Mark and Kate

... of transport there, and our car or a bus is taken aboard a wooden raft, almost submerged in the dark waters of the lake.

The road to La Paz, the off record capital of Bolivia, runs along the lake and you can see the snowy peaks of the Cordillera Real in your rear view window. The closer to La Paz, the more congested the road gets. Finally it transforms into a motorway full of cars, buses, people, bicycles ...

... morning.
Our first night in LaPaz was a farewell dinner for our Peruvian tour guide Julio & Maryam one of the Canadian ladies. The next night we meet our new tour guide for the 10days in Bolivia & 3 new recruits......
Will update again soon, sorry for the lack of photos but its been pretty hard to download them, incredibly slow & i have no patience, will put some on facebook which is a lot easier, will be in touch soon.
Love Judy

... I made it down for lunch and rest and some ¨ghetto guac¨ as I deemed it. The avacados here are so big you only need a small portion for a sandwich, so the rest went with our onions and seasonings to make guac in the shell. So, ....so good. That afternoon we went on a viscacha hunt. These little critters live in the rocks around our camp and are in the hundreds if you can get them out to see them. They are a close relative to the Chinchilla ...

We really didn´t get up to much today after yesterday´s long trip getting here. We eventually made it into town for a look-see and ended up in the middle of a cultural festival. That was amazing - the noise, colour, and heaps of music, customes, dances, food and craft/general stalls. And so many people once again.

In lieu of the Death Road 4x4 cruise we have decided to mountain bke the road tomorrow.

We have noticed as we have walkted around the ...

... 10 minutes as he had been contracted for a return trip without wait time. We settled on half an hour and when we got back to the cab he was sound asleep. Later that night we went around to a few tour agencies to book our bus tickets to Copacabana to see Lake Titicaca from the Bolivia side and to do some initial research on doing a salt flats tour.We couldn't settle on aniy one in particular so we put that one off for now and got ready to move on again tomorrow to Lake Titcaca.

... minutes from the end Claire went over her handlebars and grazed and badly bruised her knee. Poor weasel! By the time we reached the bottom we were knackered, not from exertion, but mainly fatigue from the sun which was ridiculously hot; I don`t think I`ve every felt so urgently in need of shade.Once we`d packed up the bikes onto the roof of the mini bus we got in and drove for ten minutes to a nearby hotel where we had a well-deserved bit of pool time then lunch. Overall, it was an ...

... side - mostly because a group of German engineers we met in Peru had used that company and recommended it - we figured that they would have done all the hard work for us inspecting the quality of the bikes, just like good engineers would! The ride is around 60km - all downhill with a 3km vertical descent. It begins at over 4500m in the snow, and finishes in the rainforest. The road really hasn’t been that dangerous since they built a ...

... stay in the car all by himself that night while we were all bundled on top of the truck and sat on cement bags with blankets around us eating Pringles for two hours!!!!! Now that is a travelling experience. Lying back on the cement bags looking up at the star constellations in the sky...strange!

The locals took us to the next village with our cook and booked us into a hostel. Now this hostel is the local version of a hostel, not the one we are accustomed to ...