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| Well, I fully intend to keep this one short as a kind of
apology for all the previous ones... ok, I left Argentina from Salta after a nightmare trying to get to Chile...all the roads were blocked from the snow on the passes and in the end I gave up waiting. So me and two kiwis and an english dude jumped on the 10pm bus to La Quiaca the argentine border town cleverly scheduled to arrive 2 hours before the border opened. At an altitude of 3.5000 metres you can imagine the cold...or maybe you cant, let me fill you in....it was soooooooo f*cking cold, I cant remember ever being so frozen! Well, being there at that border waiting in the little waiting room with all the bolivians sitting around drinking syrupy cafe poured from a thermal by one of the bolivian ladies in their traditional knee length colourful pleated skirt layered over bundles and bundles of clothes, thigh high stockings slipped into open toed sandles waist length plaited hair topped off with an oddly fitting bowler hat. Most of these ladies carried some kind of bundle on their backs swathed in a brightly coloured blanket, some of them turned out to be babies, others msyteriously hid the contents. Finally we braved the sub zero temperatures and over tired and a little giddy we giggled all the way to the border. Once through the slack control we realised immediately that it was sunday and thus no banks were open...ATM`s are unheard of in places like this, only the bigger cities like La Paz will have such technology and so we changed up the remainder of our argentine pesos (practically nothing) and went on our way. We were aiming to head for Uyuni but the next bus was to Tapiza where we would have to change...only we discovered on arrival that no there werent buses going from Tupiza to uyuni on sunday...dilemma! Luckily the english guy (who we had only met on the bus) was wadded and agreed to lend us cash until we could get to somewhere to obtain something. So finally this morning we found a tour company that would give us cash advances and onve again I`m in the money! loads to say about this town and indeed Bolivia itself but I need the loo, being at altitude seems to make me go every 3 minutes! mannnnnnnn ok chicoa, I`m off on a tour tomorrow with these guys and two kiwis I met in salta who are cycling around aouth america(!) for four days, I`ll let you know how it goes. tons of love to you ALL Emma _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx |
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