First (and hopefully only) day in La Paz. It's alright. Standard Andean city, with some big cathedrals and brightly woven tourist stuff for sale. The streets are extremely steep, since it's basically built into the side of a mountain, and it is one of the highest capital cities in the world, if not the highest, at about 12,000 feet. It's also pretty difficult to cross the street, since the lights are super short, if they are there at all, and there is little yielding to pedestrians. It is also really polluted, with lots of deisel trucks.
Next day going to Incan ruins at Tiwanaku, which I am excited about, and then to the Islas del Sol. We are still hoping to make it to the Salt Flats at Uyuni, which is THE it destination in Bolivia but there are some road blocks on the way there. The residents of Potosi are in a land dispute with the neighboring province of Oroni, and they want the government to build them a cement factory. So they have taken over the airport and blocked the roads. Fun. We may end up flying into Chile and crossing over to Bolivia from there to see them.
I seem to have trouble getting on gmail, so facebook is probably the best way to reach me right now.
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