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South America, part II: Bolivia

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

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streets. They sell all manner of crap - but food is vrey popular, esp the cheese empanadas (cheese puffs!) Drinks are a big attraction as well

There is a lot of disparity between the rich and poor here, like most places, its just the poor are really poor. There are heaps of beggers as well, instead of kids (like London, its old women!) I am off to Tiahuanaco museam soon, which has all about that culture and is set in an impressive looking building! Catch u later! Met some others for a meal then headed back after stopping for a Mcflurry!

The others had been cycling down the most dangerous, steepest road in the world. It starts at 5500m and is downhill for 100kms until 2000m when it opens out into the jungle. They were all pretty chattered!

Peru

Friday 19th Chaotic scenes at border crossing to Peru!

Well, now we have crossed the most hectic border ever between Bolivia and Peru. We are in Puno, on the shores of Lake Titicaca (the world´s highest naviagble lake!) Here for some food and beers tonite then in the morning we spend the day on some islands with some ruins on then. In the evening we are staying with local families - so that should be an interesting experience!

Today we left La Paz, bound for here. We intially started to travel in convey with SAS. We decided to pelt their truck with eggs (and suffer the revenge attacks later!)...so as we were driving past them, we pelted the truckk with heaps of eggs - it was covered! A few even went in the truck and smashed over people...I got hit by friendly fire by someone (Neil!) so smelt of eggs all day!

On Sunday we arrive in Cusco to rest up for the day in preparation for the Inca trail over the following 4 days. The trail is between 2500m and 4000m. Everybody is slightly concerned over it as at altitude its really hard work. We have porters for the bulk of our gear, but my camera, sleeping bag and vodka bottle weighs a ton! Went out for dinner at a pizza place (where the owner was greek and extremly drunk and stoned!), had a nice feed, fresh pizza, apple pie and beer! We all then went next door to a bar for some more drinks and to meet some SAS folks - had many drinks there. The G&T´ s were huge measures, so it wasn´ long b4 I was saliling high. Danced the nite away and it proved to a very funny nite - Ann´s fleece caught on fire over a candle and there was a lot of breakdancing going on. I was chatting to Kym from SAS - she really scares me, esp as she knows that I was throwing eggs at her! I had to be escorted home at 2am! We have left the truck in truck park till Monday. The truck contains all the camping gear, spare parts, chairs, cooking utensils, tools and food. Mostly in outside compartments but also underneath the floor boards. It also weights about 13 tons. Thought u may be interested...