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We arrived at the bus terminal in Santa Cruz at 8am where we set about negotiating the ticket price for a bus to Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, for the following evening. The price miraculously dropped by almost 10euros per person once we noticed...

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We waited for quite a while by the roadside waiting for a lift. There wasn't a single taxi and most cars that passed us were full. Some agressive pigs gave Marie a scare as they appeared out of the bushes behind us. We moved a bit further down the road...

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Mauricio told us the boat would leave at 6pm and still stuck in our western ways we believed him. We got to the boat around half past five and after quite a bit of waiting and loading of various goods the boat finally pulled out of port at 7pm. We then...

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After struggling to buy tickets online and the ensuing rise in prices I set out to find a travel agency just before the shops closed the night before leaving La Paz for Huayna Potosi. I probably found the best travel agency in La Paz where after several...

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A short walk up a 6000m peak...

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Most tourists visiting La Paz have seen the adverts for Cholitas Wrestling and we literally jumped into the tour bus the moment we got back from Copacabana. Cholitas wrestling is a show in which traditional Bolivian women with pigtails (the cholitas)...

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We took one of the modern cable cars from near our hostel in La Paz to the cemetery from where buses to Copacabana leave. Buses leave regularly for Copacabana but a roadblock by the residents of El Alto (the very populated city above La Paz) meant only...

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After nearly 3 weeks in Bolivia we arrived in the capital, La Paz. We had a look at hostels beforehand in order to read the reviews of each one on TripAdvisor and settled on the Adventure Brew Hostel since it's not a real party hostel (we wanted some...

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A dinosaur footprint and a REAL dinosaur We arrived late in Torotoro and chose the first hotel we could find which happened to be very cheap at 50Bs for a private room. Unfortunately we discovered that the bottle of olive oil we had bought in Argentina...

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We arrived in Cochabamba very early in the morning after a rough bus ride and very little sleep. Hamish was feeling pretty awful and badly needed some sleep. After knocking on the doors of various hotels around the bus station we chose the least overpriced...

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