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Thursday, 17 May 2007

Crossing to Bolivia

Eventually i left to Corumba with 3 guys from Israel and 1 Spanish guy, all from my hostel. From Corumba, which is on Brazilian side we crossed to Bolivia to a little "town" the name of which I don't remember, and stayed for a night in a "hotel" just opposite the train station. Apparntly we were advised to quee for the tickets at 5-6am. Once crossed the border I realized immediatelly: Bolivia is a VERY poor country. A lot to say about the border town. I was shocked with favellas but Bolivian towns ,appart the main square, which nornmally is charming, touristic and looked after, usually look like a big favela. It is scary but if you take it easy then you can have a lot of fun. Which we had. Eventually we got liking with the Spanish guy - Curro - and now we travel together. Once we crossed the border he got weeds and sometimes we smoke together.
On our way to Sucre by night bus i met a French girl (using the fields instead of toilet bcs toilets were so disguting) and... can you immagine? When, after 10 minutes I asked if she knows the hostel, she invited us to stay at her place with her boyfriend as they rent a big house (volunteering in Sucre). So we accepted their invitation and had good time together.
Sucre is a charming town at 2700 m asl and is on a UNESCO world heritage list.
Now we are in Potosi. 4090 m above the see level and I got a very bad headache. You fxx feel the altitute. It's so cold during the night that we decided to take matrimonial bed to keep us warm. I don`t remember when was it last time or if it ever happend that I could sleep with a guy in one bed without any silly or uncomforatble situations. Potosi is really charming town, also on a UNESCO list. It is pretty touristic although customer service in Bolivia is fucked up. Non existent.
People are so strange. Usually they dont answer your questions or answer something different or say 'no hay`- nie ma. I keep staring at the local women bcs in everyday life they wear dresses like in the pictures from the guide books and touristic adverts.
The roads are basicly non existent neither. Travelling by bus is really painful. Anybody who complains about bad roads in Poland should come to Bolivia.
From Potosi we got a bus to ulyuni. It was a real local bus (which we didn¡t know when buying the ticket). Our backpacks got on the roof of the bus and they squized as many local people, everybody with 5 bags, as possible. Eventually we arrived to Ulyuni. So FXX COLD!!!

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