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We caught the bus over the border, which was relatively smooth if typically confusing! Bolivia was a smack in the face from the second we crossed the border. We had to change from our nice Peruvian air conditioned comfy bus to a grotty Bolivian one where my seat would only stay in the reclining position (so I was forced to snooze most of the way!), the floors were swimming with what I hope was only water, the windows were jammed open to allow the car fumes to blow in, and our bags were just slung on to the roof! On reaching La Paz, we settled for the mucky but quiet room that had seemed so nice in the guide book! Hot showers though so not complaining!
Yesterday we decided to do some much needed shopping and decended on Saturday market day. There are women everywhere on every inch of street side selling absolutely everything you could every wish for. There was an entire road dedicated to wool, and another to habidashery stuff, and another to material, truely unbelieveable. The craziest thing was all of the witches stalls, where old ladies will tell your fortune using bits of llama feutus, sweets, scraps of chicken, died wool and other trinkets all put in a little pile! Odd is not the word! As we already knew our fortune (see previous blog entry) we opted out of any weird stuff and went clothes shopping! We have been missing our jeans (silly not to have brought them really!), and managed to find a pair each for the extortionate price of 10 quid each, and thats an expensive thjing here! We had huge steaks last night with yummy wine for 6 quid total and paid less than that the night before for chicken and I had Llama steak. We could live like kings, but we´ve decided to cut back a little and save some money for Brazil!
Tomorrow we´re braving more buses to travel far south (12 hours travelling! eek!) to see the salt flats, one of the highlights of Bolivia. It´s a 4 day jeep journey when we get there. so can´t wait!Love to you all,Ruth and Greg xxx- comments