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Published: December 2nd 2007
Today we said our goodbye to La Paz. Went to bus stop and bumped into our canadian friends from Puno. This was really funny because it was happening quite a lot, we would keep meeting the same people again at different stages of the journeys. They were trying to get a bus out of La Paz today but were told that due to the transport strike there were no available tickets. Anyany we got onto the bus and headed for Uyuni. This was to be the worst bus ride of our lifes. The bus was over crowded and people were sitting in the passage way, it was so cold we could warm up depite the fact that we had so many layers of clothes. It was literally freezing (icicles form on the inside of the windows). We then had to change bus in the middle of the night in some remote town. No one had told us anything about changing buses, and the bus we got onto had no name and it was worse than the first bus. we were so cold and miserable and wondered if maybe we should have left Uyuni out. We got dumped on the side of
La Paz
as we depart, with the two mountain in the background (the two brothers)the road in Uyuni at four in the morning. There were no cabs and the town was deserted at this hour. We had no choice but to walk to our accomodation in the cold freezing weather lugging all our bags, we got lost and went around the same block twice. Were too tired, cold and lacked energy to talk or complain about our predictament. Could not feel our fingers or face - very numb abd sore. Finally we found our accomodation and knocked for 20 minutes before someone came and opened the door for us. She wanted us to fill out forms then and there, at this point we told her the best way we could (not speaking any Spanish) that we would do so later on, just needed to sleep at this point. Once in the room, we stripped one bed of its four blankets at put in on the other with four blankets, so in total there were 8 blankets and we the both of jumped in the one bed with all our layer of clothes, it still took us two hours to warm up.
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