Presidente La Paz

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... beer. <br><br>Before Titicaca, I did the 4 day Inca Jungle trek from Cuzco to Machu Picchu, which unfortunately started at 6am the day after Halloween, a surprisingly large night out in the Peruvian calendar. Sadly I couldn´t find any decent fancy dress in time so borrowed some make-up and went as a highly generic zombie. Two hours of sleep later, I jump out of bed, change and wait outside for the bus. It wasn´t until ...

... had a ton of fun and for a group that had hiked the Inca Trail only days before, the dancing legs were in full effect. <br><br>About 1AM, I made my exit for the hotel, having lived the day to the fullest and in desperate need of sleep. For many of my fellow travellers, the night was only beginning to get exciting...<br><br>The group, having migrated to the Hard Rock Cafe (a local knock-off with absolutely no affiliation or ...

Well, I'm back again!<br><br>Sorry for the delay, I know you've all been desperate to hear of my adventures but I was experiencing some technical difficulties with Travelpod. Or maybe it was my laptop - who knows? All that's important is that it's all solved now and I can get back to recounting my travels.<br><br>So, I left Copacabana for La Paz, the highest captial city in the world. It's actually a little lower than Copacabana and Lake Titcaca so I wasn't overly worried about the ...

Hola Amigos!!!<br><br>Crossed the border into Bolivia today, leaving Peru behind but taking with us so many happy memories with us, we won´t soon forget Nasca, Colca Canyon, The Puno Islands and of course Machu Picchu and the Inka Trail...<br><br>Arrived in La Paz after an 8 hour journey by bus and boat... changing time zones as we passed into Bolivia, now only 5 hours behind the UK. Our first view of this city was spectacular, we peered over the edge of a hillside and ...

... the supposed scams prevailant in the city such as people spitting on you, then an accomplice helping you clean up while he relives you of your wallet. Another apparently is when someone drops cash or something, and when you go to pick it up and alert them they scream at you for being a thief whilke a nimble fingered child swipes your gear in the chaos. Luckily we saw none of that.<br><br>13th - 14th October 2009:<br><br>Got collected from our hotel in the minibus which was ...

... centre.<br><br>It took us half a day (and quite a few cups of coca leaf tea) to acclimatise to the altitude sufficiently to be able to stand up without a terrible headache... I do not want to know what hangovers are like in La Paz. The center of town has a surprising number of beautiful Cathedrals and Plazas as well as the intriguing witches market where we refrained from buying a dried llama foetus for good luck.

... nicht ungefährlich seit 1998 sind glaube ich 13 Mountainbik** tödlich v**unglückt. Wobei meist Selbstüb**schätzung od** schlechtes Mat**ial die Ursache war. (Ein Grund warum man hi** nicht zur billigsten Agentur greift) <br>Gegen 8:00 Uhr wurden wir abgeholt und sind **stmal zum Ausgangspunkt auf 4700 m Höhe gefahren (damit fast so hoch wie d** höchste B**g d** Alpen) und von dort dann in auf 1200 m abfährt. Das macht auch von d** Temp**atur ...

... it go. Angela cleverly suggested offering a reward for the successful recovery of the daysack and contents, so I dutifully obtained a photo of the day sack and offered a reward in the region of 300 pounds - a lot of money here - for the laptop return, making repeat daily trips to the bus station, hoping for good news... and not getting any.<br><br>The loss also brought about the problems of having to replace what was stolen. Mains adapters, document ...