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Arrived in Cochabamba about 9pm and walked from the bus station to Alojamiento Cochabamba. ?We passed a dangerous but fantastic looking fair with rollercoaster (v. Basic and wobbling) and helter skelters etc. ?We made plans to visit that the next night. We continued walking to our hotel through some very dangerous looking streets and arrived to find the door locked with a chain. A bright happy youth showed us to our room and Lisa fell into moroseness. The room was a little crispier than we have been used to recently. The walls were covered in cracks, the ceiling contains water and the door is like a shed door that doesn't fit its frame. The beds are extra hard, like lying on concrete and there were Lisa's mortal enemies flying around......Mosquitoes. Neither Charlie nor Lisa slept very well.
The depression lifted in the morning as the sun shone and the shower ran hot. Unfortunately the family running the hotel were all stood around the shower area and there were kulaks in hard hats roaming about.The City of Cochabamba is a big university city with a pleasant central plaza but very little else to recommend it. We did visit a maxi Jesus on a hill, reached conveniently by cable car. We were in one of the cabins when a fellow passenger (kulak) pointed out that Charlie had left his bag on the bench outside the cabin. Charlie leapt out as the car started moving, prompting much laughter from the kulaks controlling the car. He clambered back into the car and we were on our way. We spent precisely 3 minutes being bored by Jesus, during which time Charlie lay on his back to take an arty picture. It didn?t work very well. Kulaks looked confused. We soon returned on the cable car (laughing at people that chose to climb the steps) and went for lunch. We found another Indian veggie restaurant that was quite nice. We overfilled our plates at the salad bar and didn't realize that we were meant to leave space on the tray for mains, so the serving kulaks looked angry. A small boy came in during the meal and had his red plastic seaside bucket filled with soup.
Final thoughts: Hmmmm, ok we suppose. A bit boring, unless you like maxi Jesus (who is lit up green at night - classy).
Mark out of 10 = 4
Next time... Inti Wara Yassi (yea!)
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