Blogs from Yungas Road, La Paz Department, Bolivia, South America - page 9

Driving into La Paz was like driving into vehicle mayhem. Something noticeably consistent about South America is they have no road rules and a licence to drive is not required! A very smoggy city with 1.4mil Bolivians on to the roads all at once, whether by vehicle or foot, they are begging, selling, tooting horns at one another, whistling...it was quite a change from Lake Titicaca and the mountains where we’d been in isolation for the last 2 weeks. La Paz is known as the highest capitol city in the world, the city itself sits comfortably at 3600m in the middle of what looks like a canyon, with snow-capped mountains circulating the cities perimeter. A city with pretty views from a far and bustling with people, the nightlife is pumping and everything is as cheap as ... read more

So... after the fun of the fair that was Lake Titicaca, we got another bus to a place called Copacobana, although due to it chucking it down with rain, we decided to stay on the bus, and head for our next destination La Paz! Our first land border crossing passed without incedent, as we headed into Bolivia... although having to get out the bus, and cross a large river on a boat, watching the bus cross the river on another boat made us laff... no photos though, sorry! Got to La Paz, seemed like a cool place, although we did not get to see too much of it in the couple of days we were there... checked into Hostel Austria, nice clean rooms, not much else... although lovely hot showers, which we hear is a bit ... read more

Finally left Puno!! The guy at hotel Monterrey was all rush to get us to the bus station, we paid 20USD each for a directo bus to La Paz and it was only when we were an hour or so into our journey realised that the bus ticket was for Copacabana...so´s it looked like we were ripped off or there was some kind of break down in communication......so stayed in Copacabana for the night in La Mirador Hotel, 5.00USD each and it was lovely, right on the lake, and the views of sunset were just spectacular(must start staying in hostels..not only because its that bit cheaper but you meet way more people than staying in hotels and plus if I keep spending the way I am I’ll be home next month!!! Copacabana...what a lovely little town...esp. ... read more

Bon premierement, je suis desolée pour le délais mais puisqu'il me restait seulement qu'une couple de jours en Amérique du Sud, j'en ai plus profité pour faire autre chose que de l'internet.... Alors voilà je suis de retour au Canada pour faire le dernier blog de nos aventures!!! La paz, une ville chaotique !!! Nous avons passé assez de temps à La Paz pour pouvoir dire que c'est la ville la plus chaotique qu'on a vu. Il y a des gens partout, les trottoires sont remplis de trucs de toutes sortes à vendre, le traffic est bordelique et il y a du bruit de pétard assez souvent. Au début, on croyait qu'il y avait des fusillades!!! En fait nous avons eu le droit une journée à un blocage des routes, je crois que c'était une manifestation ... read more

Okay Everyone, we've done quite a bit since are last entry, so here is a quick update for you. After Macchu Picchu, we spent a couple of days in Arequipa, a beautiful colonial town in Peru. From here we did a three day trek in the Colca Canyon (twice as deep as the Grand Canyon and the second deepest in the world). Fantastic scenery though one of the highlights saw our guide getting stung on the lip by a scorpion. You´ve never seen two people with less idea of what to do. The only help and assistance we could give was to confirm to him that scorpions were, indeed, very dangerous and he was right to start panicking. He was going absolutely bananas. The nearest town was a 4 hour trek back up and it was ... read more