Yesterday I went with a huge group from the hostel (organised tour) to the Cholitas Wrestling.
That was good fun, although it was a bit long until "El Lobo" chased us out of the hall.
Today I am supposed to leave for Potosí, the old miner's town. Highest big city in the world. It used to be the biggest city in the silver mining times.
But I heard there are strikes in Bolivia. I will have to check if I can go.
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They said it would go, but I will "bolive" it when I am ON the bus!
So, I went around La Paz today and paid a visit to the Coca Museum. Very interesting. I bought a bag for ca. €1.
Ah, I also went into the Clinica Aleman, of course, to get my Caiman-Bite checked. Looks like it's not fully OK, but I should keep putting antibiotical creme on it and it will be good. Will be a good scar. And I didn't have to pay anything. :-)
Now waiting for the bus to leave for Potosí (if there are no night-roadblocks or strikes)
Montag, 15. August 2011
Freitag, 12. August 2011
TRFKAWMDR
Today I went on a 64 km mountain bike tour along the Death Road, or Yungas Road, Ruta de la Muerte or just: the World's Most Dangerous Road!
The title was given to it before they opened a new road with the same destinations 5 years ago. Since then it's only or mainly mountain biks going down. The main traffic goes over the mostly asphatlted, more safer, new road. But before that, all traffic went down Yungas Road.
So today it's more TRFKAWMDR, The Road Formerly Known As World's Most Dangerous Road!
But still, you have to be very careful. One false move, a sudden break, going too fast ... you can end up going over the edge! Free falling!
It was a great trip. Great 4-man group, great guide, good bikes, beautiful landscape!
Excellent!
The title was given to it before they opened a new road with the same destinations 5 years ago. Since then it's only or mainly mountain biks going down. The main traffic goes over the mostly asphatlted, more safer, new road. But before that, all traffic went down Yungas Road.
So today it's more TRFKAWMDR, The Road Formerly Known As World's Most Dangerous Road!
But still, you have to be very careful. One false move, a sudden break, going too fast ... you can end up going over the edge! Free falling!
It was a great trip. Great 4-man group, great guide, good bikes, beautiful landscape!
Excellent!
Amazon Area - The Pampas
After the fabulous win of Borussia at Bayern Munich I went to the Amazonas Area.
I was a great 3-day trip I booked in La Paz. I went by plane as the bus ride should have taken a horrible 20 hours.
So I flew on a small 19-seat plane to Rurrenabaque (i recognised the size of the plane when I looked for my seat 5A at the beginning. It was quite far in the back.
Airport Rurrenabaque is now the smallest I've been to, sorry Kerry Airport!
I met some nice people in Rurre. I stayed at the hostal Los Tucanes de Rurre where I saw a Jeep with a Munich plate and a Stuttgart based motorbike. They belonged to Claus and Guido who are long-term travellers and came over (sperately) with their vehicles.
The pampas tour with Dolphins Travel. Nice guides and nice company from Zaragossa - Asun and Antonio.
Day 1: 3 hours on a Jeep to Santa Rosa de Yacuma. Lunch being served by Herbert Feuerstein
Doppelgänger. Then boat trip for 3 hours and more to the lodge. Loads of animals along Rio Yacuma: Monkeys, Crocodiles, birds, etc.
Day 2: I never slept so close to Crocos. I could hear them in the river. At 9 AM we started for a long 4 hour search for snakes in the Pampas. I saw the first. Unfortunately in the mouth of a huge bird swallowing it some 100m from us. Finally one of the guides found an Anaconda.
Afternnon: Piranha fishing (and later eating them). We were more feeding than fishing them. They don't swallow, they just bite rapidly off the hook.
Day 3: Swimming with Pink River Dolphins. Unfortunately they turned up but weren't in the mood for swimming company. I wouldn't swim anyway. My dog, ahem, sorry, caiman-bite-wound was freshly open and I didn't want to make any contact with dirty water (and the hungry piranhas which were in the river in high numbers).
Afternoon: return to Rurre and later a beer at the Moskkito Bar with Asun, Antonio, Claus and Guido.
Nice Trip!
I was a great 3-day trip I booked in La Paz. I went by plane as the bus ride should have taken a horrible 20 hours.
So I flew on a small 19-seat plane to Rurrenabaque (i recognised the size of the plane when I looked for my seat 5A at the beginning. It was quite far in the back.
Airport Rurrenabaque is now the smallest I've been to, sorry Kerry Airport!
I met some nice people in Rurre. I stayed at the hostal Los Tucanes de Rurre where I saw a Jeep with a Munich plate and a Stuttgart based motorbike. They belonged to Claus and Guido who are long-term travellers and came over (sperately) with their vehicles.
The pampas tour with Dolphins Travel. Nice guides and nice company from Zaragossa - Asun and Antonio.
Day 1: 3 hours on a Jeep to Santa Rosa de Yacuma. Lunch being served by Herbert Feuerstein
Doppelgänger. Then boat trip for 3 hours and more to the lodge. Loads of animals along Rio Yacuma: Monkeys, Crocodiles, birds, etc.
Day 2: I never slept so close to Crocos. I could hear them in the river. At 9 AM we started for a long 4 hour search for snakes in the Pampas. I saw the first. Unfortunately in the mouth of a huge bird swallowing it some 100m from us. Finally one of the guides found an Anaconda.
Afternnon: Piranha fishing (and later eating them). We were more feeding than fishing them. They don't swallow, they just bite rapidly off the hook.
Day 3: Swimming with Pink River Dolphins. Unfortunately they turned up but weren't in the mood for swimming company. I wouldn't swim anyway. My dog, ahem, sorry, caiman-bite-wound was freshly open and I didn't want to make any contact with dirty water (and the hungry piranhas which were in the river in high numbers).
Afternoon: return to Rurre and later a beer at the Moskkito Bar with Asun, Antonio, Claus and Guido.
Nice Trip!
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