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We have made it to La Paz!
Since our last group e-mail we have not had a chance to back date this site, but from La Serena in Chile we bussed it to San Pedro de Atacama (in Chile) and did some sandboarding and then took a 3 day 4x4 tour across the Salar de Uyuni into Bolivia. It was unbelievable, a huge salt flat, with lagoons full of flamingoes, turquoise lakes, a red lake, volcanoes, llamas and plenty of altitude (we stopped at geysers at 5000m above sea level)!
From Uyuni (Bolivia) we bussed across to Sucre which is by far the best city we have seen in Bolivia (to date), and spent 8 days there, learning some Spanish, checking out museums, horseback riding and waterfall jumping! We have been in La Paz just over a day and have seen churches and markets. There is some sort of a strike on at the moment which may prevent us from mountainbiking down the Death Road - so fingers crossed Bolivia´s El Presidente can overhaul the strike (apparently a decision will be made this afternoon). Otherwise we will have to fly (rather than bus it) to Rurrenabaque for a 3 day river cruise to see a heap of Amazon Basin wildlife and fish for piranhas!
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