Rad Sas Royal Suite Jeddah La Paz

... go to the baño to inspect myself in the mirror but some Australians said "I wouldn´t look if I were you". Hmm... I looked and it could have been worse - only about 18% of one tooth was missing and the rest was just cuts &amp; bruising which will take care of itself long before Mrs Turner sees me again. I did look a little like a Welsh rugby player, but to go over the edge of the WMDR and suffer only head, limb and torso injuries is not bad.<br><br>After showering the dried blood ...

... that one mother of a bolivian president said "if i knew he was going to be president, then I would have sent him to school". Say no more, this place has worse politics than Italy (but unfortunatley no parliamentary fights ensue as they are at altitide).<br>La Paz is a hilly winding inferno of cobbled alleys, collonial architecture, and is full of old wide Bolivian grans with charlie-chaplain hats and two plaits to their ...

... forward to for a while, which was a 64km downhill bike ride.<br><br>The North Yungas road is about 40k north of La Paz the road first ascends at around 4700m, descending down to 1200m over 64km to a place called Coroico. It was built in the 30's by Paraguayan prisoners and connects the Andes with the Amazon Rainforest. Sounds great, must have some lovely scenery and its nearly all down hill - excellent! Oh there was one other thing, no one really knows it as the ...

... Most people understand that there is a right way to lay in a hammock, and all kinds of wrong ways. She didn´t care. She would twist sideways, sit straight up, or even roll over, and she never took no for an answer. Then, every once in a while, she would let out this contented moan that just made me feel so small, and so...so...dirty."<br><br>Asked for her reaction to these allegations "Laynni" replied simply:<br><br>"Yeeeaaah, I enjoyed the hammock"<br><br><br><br><br>

... past the 4WD and down to some water. Next thing we are floating on a barge! On the bus!! We calmed down a bit when we didnt get attacked or mugged and Dan remembered seeing a photo of a bus on a barge. Apparently its all very normal and after about 15 minutes of crossing the lake the other passengers appear out of nowhere, get back on the bus, and off we go!<br><br>I realy shouldnt have watched the show ´´trouble in paradise´´ before coming on this trip haha.<br>

... men in the US in the 1930's would wear kind of - I dont have many pictures of them because they seem to not like having a camera pointed at them...La Paz also is full of markets and specialized areas of town - a market for clothes, a market for hardware, for food, for witchcraft stuff, for books and whatever - the city is like one huge open air market and it has some order to it but you find a lot ...

... My arms were cut up, my left pretty bad, and my head hurt as I landed pretty much face first. Luckily I had swapped my shades for a pair of goggles so they took most of the impact and I had some pretty severe swelling above and below my left eye. Despite probable concussion I decided to carry on so as not to look like a jessy and peddled a few kilometeres of flat terrain on my lonesome before I came across the rest of the group who were waiting further along the road. Ang was ...

... sight having just come from the high plateau in Peru. As we began to descend into la Paz we could see buildings clinging to the side of the canyon, precariously perched and looking as if any moment they might tumble like lego pieces into the valley below. Was I glad we were going to be going down to find accommodation rather than up.<br><br>la Paz has become a bit of a party place in recent times, there are several young and hip places you can go, if you like ...

... when we walked past earlier. Brain freeze wins again!<br><br>Hmm, here´s where the **** hits the fan; apparently one our bags is now lost in transition and we have to make a complaint in La Paz when we arrive and hope to hell it turns up in the next 2 days or so. Not happy but what can you do? we decide to cut our losses and pray to god it turns up ok.<br><br>5 hours later we jump on the final flight to la paz, on the home stretch at last.....<br><br>Hmm, La paz is a bit high, My ...

... we stop for about 2 hours and a photo of course. He gives us a map of La Paz with useful points marked up.<br>As we enter La Paz it is minibus whackey races and mayhem! They are everywhere and we struggle to get on the right road in.<br>Young Graham longs for some younger company and heads for a highly recommended hostel, I decide I need a bit of luxury for once and stop at a good hotel about a 100 metres down the road. Luxury hot and ...