May 13, 2010

Bolivia

Spent our last day in Galapagos relaxing and going out for a last meal - including a huge ice cream, since it was our last night in the Galapagos...
We had a day in Guayaquil which we spent walking downtown on the Malecón, a nice road located by the river. Very non-touristy, which was nice after the european and american crowds of people we'd just left.
Arriving to Lima the day after, we found a busticket to Puno, as far west as we could possibly get. Went to McDonalds for lunch - I asked what they had without meat and ended up getting a Happy Meal - why not? So now I've got a Batman car in my bag, definitely going with me on long busrides... :p

Arriving to Puno after a rough 24 hours, we decided to wait for the next bus till sunday morning. Checked in at the Point and met two people who were travelling to La Paz the next day as well, so we went on the same bus. Arrived monday afternoon and went out for a look around the city before returning to the hostel to get a couple of beers. Alex went to bed quite early, being tired after yet another busride, but I ended up going out with some danes, a norwegian and a french guy. Went to an almost completely deserted club called "Mongo's", but since we were 5 scandinavians we managed to get things going a bit. Had quite a nice night, and luckily we didn't have any plans the day after, so I could get a long nights sleep.
Tuesday we went walking around town again, going to the witches market and relaxing a bit. At night we went out for dinner at "The Star of India", where Alex spent almost 3 hours and 4 liters of water and three times puking eating the hottest vindaloo in the world - he received a t-shirt for completing the dish that he now wears with pride!

Wednesday we went mountainbiking on Death Road, the worlds most dangerous road. Definitely an amazing experience, biking on the edge of a road, knowing that if you fall down you'll have about a thousand meters till you hit ground... The scariest part was driving back on the same road though - the fact that you're not in control of the car is way more uncomfortable than just biking downhill, when you can stay to the mountainside.

Today we went to try and get in to San Pedro prison, a place where the prisoners live with their families inside, controlling everything themselves. It was 400kr to get a tour though, so we decided not to go. In stead we ended up going to the coca museum, a really interesting place where you could find lots of information about the coca leaves and the use of them - so now we're experts on cocaleaves... Ended the visit by eating a coca chocolate cake - Alex made the weird choice of a gross coca cheese cake, have absolutely no idea why.

Tonight we have another 12 hour busride in front of us, going to Uyuni to see some apparently amazing salt flats. Hoping to get a cheap tour to fit our budget after having spent quite a lot of money doing Galapagos.

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