On top of the world (literally) in Bolivia
October 25th 2006 100km before we even crossed the border into Bolivia it already felt as if we were there. Gone were the green grass-lands of Argentina and as the truck climbed to almost 4,000m the whole landscape was almost ´surface-of-the-moon´like - well apart from a few dry tufts of grass and the Llamas feasting on them.
The altitude wasn´t treating me too kindly because as well as having swollen feet, a b
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