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South America, part II: Bolivia

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

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April 7th

Went mountain biking today to Death Valley (about 5kms from San Pedro) and to some pre-inca ruins. I was knackered as its hard work and the route was all over stones and slightly scary. Finished at about lunchtime, then headed to our usual hangout, Cafe Export. I recommend it, its about $5 for a huge pizza and a beer. Watch these calories pile on...In the evening went out for a few beers and met up with some of the other folks from the South American Safaris truck (SAS). I think I am in love with one of them!

April 8th

Left San Pedro and headed towards Bolivia. Its quite strange but after we passed the border and had our passports stamped, we were in no-mans land. It was owned by nobody...its like that for about 30kms till we reached the Bolivan border checkpoint. It was really high up and so it was quite chilly, almost time for long trousars. We drove further into the Altiplano (high plateau) and passed through different landscapes, from the totally barren to small clumps of grass with the occasional Llama there. We visited the Taito geysers at 5000m, and then Laguna Verde. That was really nice, a clear lake with salt deposits and some flamingos (not pink as in Miami vice, due to a different diet!). Went round a couple Lagunas b4 we camped for the nite. People were dropping like flies with altitude sickness, adn everybody had on about 5 layers of clothes, quite funny! At nite, there was 3 of us in out 2 man tent and it was still cold. My nose was running, I had a headache and I was shivering - I felt bad, and had no sleep! Nobody else did, so in the morning everyone were like night of the living dead!

April 9th

We drove further onto the Altiplano and into the bleakest sceanery I have senn. There was totally nothing there, I got some great fotos of that. Today I was cooking so, our team made bangers and mash ...