Much of today was spent simply wandering the markets of La Paz looking for Christmas presents. We were all doing a secret Santa gift and also buying a joke gift to be distributed on Christmas day. We had a budget of $10 US for the secret Santa gift and $5 US for the joke. I […]
Day 105 : Rurrenabaque to La Paz
It was difficult for Rhys to get a confirmed time for our flight back to La Paz, we kept being told it was delayed. Thankfully we did manage to fly out in the afternoon, the alternative was a drive of more that thirteen hours in jeeps. We flew out in the same small plane and […]
Day 102 : La Paz to the Jungle Lodge
The next stop on our trip was the Amazon again, this time a Bolivian section. To get to the jungle we had quite the travel day. In the morning we were scheduled to fly from La Paz to the town of Rurrenabaque on the other side of the Andes. Arriving at the airport we were […]
Part 8 : Day 101 : La Paz
There is a road near La Paz called the death road. It’s a single lane dirt road carved into a mountain side and at many points there are steep drop offs of up to one hundred meters. For years it was one of the main routes towards La Paz but in the last few years […]
Day 100 : Puno to La Paz
Driving from Puno early we headed straight for the border with Bolivia. The border town was busy but thankfully not as much of a market as the previous border. There was a bit of queuing but things went well and we were soon all stamped up and in Bolivia. A view over La Paz We […]