Friday, April 5, 2013

Day 22 Tuesday March 26th. La Paz


Our local travel agent calls to tell us that our planned bus route back to Peru (Puno) through Copocabana is blocked by local protestors who don’t want the government to go ahead with a planned bridge over a narrow part of Lake Titicaca (where we had previously crossed by ferry). We will have to take a bus to Drozgoadera (sp?) leaving at 7.15am tomorrow and then change buses and we should arrive in Puno, with luck around 5.00pm local time.
We spend the rest of today looking around La Paz-which we like. We walk to part of the old colonial town, Calle Jaen (“Cayey Hein”) and stop for coffee, chocolate cake and to people-watch. Then we catch an open topped tourist bus for a trip around the outskirts of La Paz for a couple of hours. It’s fun but we have to duck the frequent dangling and broken electrical wires which drape through the seats at the top of the bus as we pass under them.
Oscar cuts my hair. ($4).
Dinner at our favorite restaurant (also an Hotel), La Casona. In case you fancy a mid-morning snack this photo is of dried baby Llamas...


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