SATURDAY – A RESTFUL DAY IN LA PAZ

Today we farewelled our guide Reni. The tour is over and he is heading back to Cusco for his next assignment. He was great value. Unfortunately, Trish is still affected by altitude sickness. She is OK as long as she doesn't exert herself but, when she walks up hills, she becomes unwell. It is very difficult to avoid hills here.

 

 

Thinking that she was OK, we set out this morning to find the red cable car. It's bottom station is about 10 to 15 minutes walk from here but, it is uphill. To her credit, Trish made it and we paid our three Bolivanos (about 50 cents) for a ticket and set off up the mountain.

The small vertical silver thing you can see embedded in the cliff to the left of centre in the picture above is a car which ran off the road above and careered down the cliff side. The picture below shows the car. The registration number written on the side of the car at the rear indicates that it was a taxi. History does not relate what happened to the occupants but it would not have been a happy ending.  

 

 

Tomorrow, we head for the low warm city of Santiago. Had we understood the impact of altitude sickness, we would have arranged to spend less time here.