We had a long day of travel ahead of us as we travelled around the edge of Lake Titicaca to the Peru-Bolivia border. Here were exchanged our Pervuian Soles for Bolivian Bolivianos at street vendors, got our passports stamped with an exit stamp for Peru and walked across no-mans land into Bolivia. After filling our our paperwork and getting a Bolivian entry stamp in our passports, we got onto our bus. We had wheeled our luggage across the border and it wasn´t even checked!!
We headed to Tiwanaku, the site of a pre-incan civilisation. We stayed around here, having a tour for a few hours and we saw many similarities to what we had learnt about the Inca Civilisation.
We then headed to La Paz, which is the highest capital in the world (even though it is not really Bolivia´s capital!!) We all met up for dinner, since it is our last night with the group (only Jimmy, Fionnuala and Yvonne are continuing on). Jimmy was late for dinner as he hadn´t changed the time on his watch (we´re lost an hour when we crossed the border)!! Ended up in Mongo´s bar for a few last drinks together. Its really sad having to say goodbye to the group as it was a good group to be travelling with!
The next day, we met our new group, that consisted of Robert from Sweeden, Martha from Manchester, Ros & Terry from Gerrards Cross and Mary-Ann and Andy from Oregon. Our tour guide is Melissa.
That night we went out for dinner at Oliver´s Travels - a 100% fake English pub!! We met up with Karen, Karyo, Susan & Martin who, although they have finished our tour, are staying in La Paz for a few days. Headed back to the hotel in the middle of a downpour - the roads had become rivers!!
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