Yeahhhhh man, we are in Copacabana… not the one from the song, but shhhh. This is the cheaper, bolivian one with a big lake as opposed to a resort of beach but it”ll do. We have a private room again yayyy with ensuite and tv and a view from the window! cant even remember the last time that happened. It costs 4 squids each per night but that does include breakfast (a stale bread roll with unidentified fruit juice….)
We have decided to totally lard arse here for a few days maybe rent a boat for a bit today and maybe go to an island tomorrow… but apart from that… eat, tan, sleep, and more of the same, maybe some more souvenir shopping…
Our second day in la paz was the first day in the whole of the travels that we have actually dedicated to shopping (souvenirs) which was awesome. We went to the witches market, which was very lacking in witch-y things, a few plant herby things and lots of llama foetuses yummmm but apart from that it was all for the tourists which we totally didnt mind.
Found a well good place for lunch… we got soup (toby has become my official runny soup finisher (and starter) as i am not so keen…, quarter chicken with rice and chips, and a drink.. for one pound thirty. Good deal! except this random man with a balaclava stood right in front of us on the other side of the window and seeemed to be staring at us for like a full minute, which was terrifying. He then banged on the window and went away, toby reckons he was trying to get the attention of the waiter but i was convinced he would be waiting for us round a corner… he wasn”t.
For the rest of the afternoon we checked out the other parts of la paz, which took like an hour maximum and then some more shopping! bought the newest series of greys anatomy (yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy) and watched a double bill at the hostel, only to find that we are missing the last 6 episodes (nooooooooooooooooooo).
The next morning we were up super early (missing our pancake breakfast) to go biking on the death ride,,, whoop. got to the ofice for seven and after a non pancake breakfast headed off. It was ALL downhill except for the last five minutes which is my kind of mountain biking as you could basically not pedal at all just make sure you dont fall off the edge and brake a lot. You are concentrating quite hard and if your toby your going so fast you cant even see the scenery but i guess it was quite dangerous-y. finished around one and i wasnt too far behind, even though i had an almost falling in a river experience which left me with a very wet left shoe… and admittedly i did walk all the uphill bit, but only because it was quicker than my attempt at biking. chilled out after finishing with a buffet lunch and a swimming pool, which i was VERy tempted to go in but didnt quite make it. I also got bitten by the most killer mosquito ever. whoop.
after the LONG drive back to La Paz all we had time to do was eat and sleep not too thrilling.
Then bus in the morning to the copacabana which we like a lot. its basically one road with lots of touristy stuff and not much else. went to the awesomeest restaurant last night with amazing nachos and enchiladas and chocolate cake! covered with fairy lights and a well good jack johnson / reggae versions of the beatles soundtrack and furry rugs on the chairs. And board games… we played connect four and chinese checkers and battle ships because we are just soooooooo cool.
And this morning, we completely blobbed out and just about managed to make it to the internet place for about half 12…..
and thats it! 3 weeks left!
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Was worried that I’d leave Aus without seeing them, but we did. Another suprise cool animal was the Wombat that was asleep and very nice. After the park me and Will went out on a fast paced mountain bike ride. Was great fun with some great technical parts and plenty of windy downhills