Before I get to a new country, I try to think what I’ll expect and usually I’ve been a little bit correct except for Mongolia and now Bolivia. You hear all the stories of the Cocaine drug barons living in the forest and the drug mules that they con and I jut had a vision of a run down country that would rob you as soon as they saw you were from Europe. How wrong I was. I got the bus into La Pas, the highest capital in the world, from Arica in Chile. The border was organised and surprisingly quick and straight forward, but seeing how many backpackers were around, I guess they were used to the western foreigners coming through. Getting back on the bus I realised we were going higher and for some
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