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South America, part II: Bolivia

Richard Rosss
2006-04-03 12:30:09

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jail has families there, we saw tons of kids and women there (there is about 300 kids out of 1400 prisoners, but they leave at 8am to go school outside the jail) Monica works in journalism and she is thinking of doing an article/documentary on this guy as he is such a star! Who says that crime doesn´t pay!

After that we were totally buzzing so we had to sit for a bit and have some coke (cola, silly!) and chill for a bit. Some of us were going out for dinner with the new folks to a place called Mungo´s (a gringo hangout). There was tons of people there, mainly SAS but also Kumuka. Sat and chatted with SAS for a while, then the girls...it was great to hear all the truck gossip! Really nice meal there and tons to drink - ended up staying there till 2am as I could not dance anymore!

18th La Pax

After another bracing shower, headed onto internet to catch up before going to see how many Big macs I can eat. I picked up my laundry this morning, so I have some semi-clean clothes now. Tomorrow we go on the truck which is out, to Lake Titicaca on the Bolivia and Peru border. The truck finally made it after snapping several winches and 5 days in the salt! The authourities have banned trucks from driving across the salt plains now and there is a 20m by 10m hole in the salt...our work is done here! Gron and Phil are here now...full squad!

Headed into McDonalds for Llama´burgers and bumped into Michelle and Katie (2 new girls). All roads lead to McDonalds. Popped into the central market - full of butchers and fruit stalls and then there is tons of stalls selling chicken type soup and some sort of meat. iT was incredily busy and also full of soldiers. When I turned the corner, they all turned and stared at me...rather funny, I felt like a giant!

The whole city is one big market with stalls everywhere - on street corners, on the the roads and on the quietest ...