La Paz, day one

26.05.: La Paz

Thursday:

In Cochabamba, we had the luck of making the acquaintance of Mercedes, a native woman travelling on the same bus, also to La Paz, where she works as transporter. Of what, we didn't understand, maybe a taxi driver. She steered us towards the terminal (we didn't arrive there), and immediately found a guy trying to fill up his soon leaving Cama-bus (the most comfortable class) with passengers for 30Bs a seat. I think, although I'm not sure, that the usual price was between 60 and 90Bs!

The ride was, of course, infinitely more comfortable than the one before, with the two (totally different, not part of a series) Scorpion King movies being shown, one in Spanish, one English. However, along the ride, the bus started falling apart: The toilet was not working from the start, but somewhere on the Altiplano, the cover of an emergency exit came off, and the cold wind from 4000m height streamed in. Later on, after a break, it took half an hour to repair something down in the motor case of the bus.

Found the hostel Dom & Georgie recommended, called Jach'a Inti, at 35Bs a night in a three bed room, with a shared kitchen, and next to a vegetarian restaurant doing a very tasty and copious menu del dia (soupa y segunda) for 8Bs.

After dinner, when we all were complaining about overful bellies, we strolled through the streets of La Paz, and immediately found lots of stand selling lama foetuses.