Blogs from La Paz Department, Bolivia, South America - page 233

We arrived in La Paz really early in the morning so intended to climb into a hostel bed, not as easy as it sounds. For anyone arriving in La Paz early in the morning be warned most of the hostels are closed! You can buzz for as long as you like but they will not answer the door! And by early i mean 6am! But we eventually found a place and just crashed out untill mid afternoon, cama buses arnt as comfy as everyone would like you to think! We spent much of the afternoon just wandering around, it took us a while to find anywhere on the map because the lp guide map sucks! But just wandering was good enough for us. Everywhere you look you can see huge mountains towering over the city, with ... read more

i should try to keep up to date on these blogs because once again i am writing from memory. Arriving in copacabana was like going back in to the tourist world. after spending so much time in Bolivia where there aren't a lot of tourist, well some backpacker type tourists and tourists in la Paz, copa was a reminder of what i would be seeing in peru. there were a lot of tourists, backpackers and "regular" tourist. i.e. people who are traveling for a few weeks and can afford to stay in nice places. not that i have stayed in bad places, and copa was a cheap place to stay. yo could get a room for about $1.25 per night. i sprung and got a nice one with private bath for $3 a night. i am ... read more

I arrived in LA Paz on Saturday night from Cochabamba. Forgot how fun it is to try to breathe at an altitude over 10,000 feet. Met up with Paddy and Suzi From Ireland at a bar they work at. this is the fourth time i have seen them, the first time was in Bariloche, Argentina. I´m sure this won´t be the last time. Also ran into Gary and james from Sucre, probably won{t be the last time for them either. oh before i forget, if you want to see full size pics or down them click here FOTOS On Monday Paddy and I did the Death road bike trip. We did it with Madness mountain biking. The trip starts at over 14,000 feet and drops to about 4500 feet more or less. The trip cost a ... read more

- FOOD: Dark choc Toblerone - mmmmmmmm. Very good trout dinner. Mexican but just not as good as home. Lovely Chiflay cocktails once more. - PEOPLE: Crazy (or just plain drunk) bus driver, bloody stubborn ridiculous tourists who haven't learnt the South American laid back way of life very well. - AREA: The maddest bus journey yet to small tourist town Copacabana. Ferry across Lake Titicaca to Isla del Sol - another Inca paradise. Beautiful views from the cemetry at Cerro Calvario. Virgen de Copacabana dressed up doll (that is very important!) - WEATHER: Hot at high, high altitude Sun 17th: I caught a bus to Copacabana - supposedly a nice quick 3 hour journey. 6 hours later, after spending most of the time wondering if the driver was very new or drunk, we arrived in ... read more

On the bus, I shall be mainly eating fruit. I wanted to buy three bananas (quite a few anyway, right?) but to make the price up to 1 boliviano (15 to the pound) I had to get seven. Ditto with the oranges. I shall be listening to Cold Play, Green Day (American Idiot), FF live at Glastonbury, the BEPs, and a compilation CD with Foo Fighters´"Best of You", which had been sending me wild when it came up on Xfm before I left. So good. I have a blanket too. A fetching grey with lime green flecks, it is. Bring this journey on! Sorry, just wasting time (yeah yeah, I hate waste, I know) before meeting the lazy ones for lunch.... read more