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November 12, 2005
Exploring the Town
Today we started the day switching rooms at the hotel as it the great room we were in had been booked for Saturday night. They put us in another room in the main building. While not the suite it still worked out great.
In town we bought train tickets from a local travel agent to get from La Paz to Villazon, in essence the border with Argentina. We had heard from the German couple we had met that that there was a road blockade at the border but he told us that it had been resolved. As of now we’re leaving at on the 3:30pm train from Oruro, a town a few hours south east of La Paz.
In the afternoon, alongside Bolivians of all ages, we hiked up the mountain behind our hotel to a monument. It was another somewhat strenuous hike but we were rewarded with some more fabulous views of the lake. Interestingly, also at the top there were several people selling plastic houses and cars. I thought they were toys for kids but later in the night we would find out from the same German couple. They walked up right at dusk and when they reached the top people were blowing up the plastic houses and toys with fireworks. Supposedly, it was some sort of religious ceremony that was supposed to bring good luck (i.e. blow up a plastic house and it would help you get a real one).
After dinner we called it a night. Tomorrow it is off to La Paz.
Posted by Peter Mork at November 12, 2005 1:52 PM
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