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Lake Titicaca
Probably not the most appropriate picture for a journal on La Paz, but this entry includes the lake, where we came closer to expiring than we ever did in the big old bad old actually quite superb city of La Paz. Sucker for the natural shots that we are.
Fake Police in the City of Peace and Near Death by Scenery
April 12th 2006 A tad nervous by the news that the bodies of a couple of tourists abducted in January were found in unmarked graves recently, we rode the bus into La Paz with some trepidation. If I had read the British and American government travel advisories before hand I think I would have insisted on riding the bus into to La Paz with an armed guard. The road to La Paz takes us through the ‘slum’ city of
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