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Final days in Bolivia, it's definatly a country that you remember! Such a random country it definatly provides you with plenty of dinner stories!!! After the palava of getting stuck, we flew to Sucre from La Paz. Bolivian airlines...go a bit like this...very slow take off, bumpy flight, and landing at about 10x the normal speed, rolling down an ever dissapearing length of runway, that at the end, is a cliff! Needless to say the fear of flying I thought I had conquered was back! But sucre is beautiful, and well worth the terror of impending death. A city that you can do nothing in, which I tried to do, but found time to do some trekking to dinosaur footprints (up what I'm not sure is a legitimate route across a cliff face!). Even attempted some horseriding, again at great height, down steep hills on a stumbling 20yr old horse! Sucre also allowed us to sample the Bolivian nightlife! Never did I ever think I would enter a bar so stinky the staff actually walk round the dancefloor spraying airfreshner! Priceless.
Somehow managed to get back onto a plane and fly back to La Paz on Friday. Normal flight this time, think the pilot was actually there! With so many near death experiences thought I'd add one more and did 'death road'. This involves riding down at mountain from 4700metres for 64km on a bicycle. On dirt roads through clouds, with a pretty big drop a couple of metres away from you on the side! Absolutly brilliant though, amazing how fast you can go! (Was very grateful for working brakes, would have died if they had been the bikes from La Serena!). La Paz is not what could be described as beautiful (the witches market with llama foetuses doesn´t help!) but its interesting. Say farewell to Bolivia tomorrow and onto Peru.
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