jueves, 6 de mayo As Madonna once sang: "Don´t cry for me Argentina. The truth is I never left you." Well, we did. This morning in fact, into Bolivia. Our midnight bus from Salta (including Mendoza Dan) arrived in La Quiaca at 7am. Holy cr*p was it cold. We were not prepared for that. Blood immediately left the extremities, apparently the altitude is pretty high up here which would account for the shock. Oh, it´s also pitch black which made the walk to the border all the more fun. We stamped out of Argentina for the second time in just over a fortnight, fighting with the South Americans who have literally no concept of the queue, to reach Bolivian customs at its opening time of 7am. Except that it´s 6am because the clocks went back here.
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