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Hi Everybody. We hope that you are all well.
Just arrived in Cusco after spending 10 days in Bolivia. Whilst there, we visited La Paz and the Uyuni salt flats. We really liked La Paz. We did a city walking tour which was very interesting. We heard some very interesting stories about political antics (various inner city gun battles), odd construction rituals which included human sacrifice, burying a live person under large constructions as a blessing, drug production in 5star gaols (where inmates buy there cells and pimp them out, depending on their wealth and status, with things including flat screens, jacuzzis and prostitutes), held llama foetuses (buried under houses as blessings to the gods for safe construction), saw Paint street, alcohol street and shoe street and got told to avoid the sightseeing bus that has no roof so to avoid decapitation from the low lying electricity lines! Unfortunately, Kevin hasn't ridden Death road yet but we may head back to Bolivia after Cusco.
We took an overnight bus to Uyuni to start our 3day 2night tour of the salt flats, mountains, volcanos, lagoons, train cemetery and geothermal springs. The salts flats were amazing. Unbelievable bit of scenery and landscape. We had a Bolivian family with us which was special. The daughter spoke English so she translated a lot of the information and the conversation for us. They were a really nice family who adopted us for a few days so we felt like Bolivians, which was great.
The bus rides to and from Uyuni were horrendous as half of it is on unpaved gravel roads. Add to that the semi cama seats were made for much shorter people which resulted in a very uncomfortable journey. To top it off we picked up a mild case of gastro from a restaurant in Uyuni, so haven't been feeling the best but are on the mend and should be good for the trek.
We are taking it easy in Cusco at the moment. Our Machu Pichu trek starts in a few days. We will pop up some pics from there when we return :-)
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Windy Sounds like you guys continue to have a wonderful time. Very envious. I hear you on the bus seats. Kev, you must have found it particularly tough being 6'1". Keep the reports rolling in. Windy