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La Paz with Mount Chacaltaya in the background Full Image<br />After walking the Inca Trail to Machu Piccu in Peru we flew from Cusco south to La Paz in Bolivia - almost the highest capital city in the world..almost in as much as it isn´t a capital city, but hey it is pretty high at 4200m! Sucre is capital of Bolivia for those of you who are interested...what nobody?<br />
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Thomasin Turner2006-03-23 11:20:29
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La Paz with Mount Chacaltaya in the background Full Image
After walking the Inca Trail to Machu Piccu in Peru we flew from Cusco south to La Paz in Bolivia - almost the highest capital city in the world..almost in as much as it isn´t a capital city, but hey it is pretty high at 4200m! Sucre is capital of Bolivia for those of you who are interested...what nobody?
La Paz is a pretty bazarre place spilling up out of a canyon and onto the altiplano (high altitude plateau). Its very cheap. In the markets you can get some real bargains..cheap guitars and pan pipes, cheap silver things (so I am now adorned in the finest Bolvian jewelry looking rather like a cheap South American Jimmy Saville!) and also llama foetuses. I am not sure how I have got by until now without a well stocked cupboard of llama foetuses, I´m sure your all asking yourselves the same thing!... OK thats La Paz just pretty much covered.
From La Paz we flew north east into the outer fringes of the Amazon Jungle. We spent 3 days on the Pampas (kind of grass lands criss-crossed by rivers and really busy with wildlife) and 2 days in the jungle proper.
We saw more wildlife in the
On Top of Chacaltaya Mountain - O/S La Paz Full Image
Pampas than the jungle due to the density of vegetation that there is in the rain forest, but also because we we joined in the jungle by loudest and campest Swiss guy that Switzerland has ever had the pleasure of waving goodbye to at Zurich airport. We did see a Puma though which was exciting, and a tortoise which was perhaps less exciting (there was less of a lengthy stalk required with that one!), but still pretty cool.
In the Pampas we saw some kind of crocodile. Loads of them. We also swam in the river at one point - I am still trying to work out what we were thinking with that one. There were also Piranha in there....it must have been the heat affecting our brains. We saw fresh water dolphins, tutles,
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