Well another weekend and another trip away from La Paz. Due to my lack of traveling before Christmas, I am trying to get it all in now. So this weekend, I was off to Sorata, a small mountain town about three and half hours northwest of La Paz. In the guidebook, Sorata is described as a crumbling, colonial gem, that was enough to interest me in going there. Kevin's Bolivian friend (whom him met in Brandon, Manitoba), Antonio, is from Sorata and offered to drive us there for the weekend. Kevin's friend Claire, from Calgary, came with us as well as she was nearing the end of her trip to Bolivia and still hadn't been to Sorata. So Saturday morning, Antonio picked Kevin and I up at Kevin's place (he lives about three blocks from me,
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