17/05/09 - 23/05/09 After the week and a half of classes I felt ready to have a break and found a great 5 day biking and boating trip Bike&Boat - from Sorata (about 3 hours north of La Paz) to Rurrenabaque in the Amazon Basin. I travelled to Sorata by minibus, about 4 hours north of La Paz on Sunday, 17th of May and stayed there overnight and met the rest of the group at 7am the next morning. We travelled uphill in the two jeeps for about 3 hours, up to an altitude of 4,800m (from 2,700m) where we kitted ourselves out with helmets and protective knee/shin pads and rode our bikes a little to get used to them, before commencing the 4,000m decent which would take 2 days and cover about 110 kilometres on
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