Puno - La Paz

Goodbye Peru hello Bolivia, but nearly not for some.

 

after visiting Lake Titicaca, we drove to the boarder crossing where we had to walk across, and all of our baggage was loaded onto a tricycle. the process was for the Australians and Dutch, no problem and took only a matter of mins, but for the Americans took us 3 hrs as they needed to get visa's to enter, and had to jump through many hoops, our guide also had an issue as his Peru residency had expired, which would have given him entry, so he had to arrange to enter as a tourist, so that he could continue with the tour.

 

Once through the boarder we visited a pre Inca site Tiwanaku and had a late lunch, and then continued on crossing high passes, and the endless plains with snow capped mountains in the distance.

 

By the time we got to La Paz it was getting dark, as we drove in there was much building work going on in the suburbs, it was strange to see so many half constructed buildings that looked deserted, but I'm told that they are being completed, and the city itself, built in a crater, is large and uninviting, although one thing did surprise me and that was the cable car system that has bee built to transport people from the centre to the outer suburbs.