Painful lessons learnt all in the name of thrills, and wildlife hunting in the pampas
June 4th 2007 The bus ride to La Paz from Copacabana is quite an experience. Half way through the journey everyone has to leave the bus to get a boat across a narrow straight of Lake Titicaca while the bus gets on its own boat. The buses boat however isn’t very stable at all and more than once we watched as it tipped all over the place threatening to shed its load and all our stuff with it! Once on the oth
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