Leaving Bolivia
A highlight was to have all our smelly, dirty, moist clothes washed and dried and delivered to our hotel in Rurrenabaque the very same night we came back from the jungle. This was a first for us. We saw a huge hole in the road that someone had taken the initiative to cover with a piece of cardboard - shaky! We have come across so many similar happenings in Bolivia!
We decided to take the small 20 seater plane the next day (30 May) to La Paz (a 40 minute flight at the price of a Kulula flight) rather then the 20 hour bus ride through the night on the death road with a very real chance of not surviving. The airport is a tiny building with a grass runway. Amazing how job creation works in this country - two people were siting at two different desks at the airport to collect two different taxes from each of the 20 passengers!
The flight was beautiful - we took off in the amazon lowland, climbed over many mountain ranges and eventually flew next to snow covered peaks of 6000m high. The landing (at 4000m) was quite shaky as we could see through the cockpit how the plane was tossed from side to side.
The day in La Paz was spend doing admin and booking our bus tickets to Puno, next to Lake Titicaca in Peru for the next day.
Culture shocks: local people don't have grey hair until they are very very old; government and official signs are painted by hand; the electrical heating contraption around a shower head results in the heat to be inversely proportional to the water flow.
We decided to take the small 20 seater plane the next day (30 May) to La Paz (a 40 minute flight at the price of a Kulula flight) rather then the 20 hour bus ride through the night on the death road with a very real chance of not surviving. The airport is a tiny building with a grass runway. Amazing how job creation works in this country - two people were siting at two different desks at the airport to collect two different taxes from each of the 20 passengers!
The flight was beautiful - we took off in the amazon lowland, climbed over many mountain ranges and eventually flew next to snow covered peaks of 6000m high. The landing (at 4000m) was quite shaky as we could see through the cockpit how the plane was tossed from side to side.
The day in La Paz was spend doing admin and booking our bus tickets to Puno, next to Lake Titicaca in Peru for the next day.
Culture shocks: local people don't have grey hair until they are very very old; government and official signs are painted by hand; the electrical heating contraption around a shower head results in the heat to be inversely proportional to the water flow.
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