Hopefully
our view of Bolivia will improve over the next day or so but, at this
stage, the only thing welcoming about Bolivia is the sign.
Unfortunately Trish's altitude sickness returned and we had to
survive a three hour ordeal in queues to cross the border from Peru
to Bolivia. On both sides of the border, they had a hopelessly
inadequate number of processing personnel for the number of people
wanting to cross.
Having
survived the border crossing, we then went to he Tiwanaku
archaeological site. Unfortunately we weren't in the most positive of
moods so probably didn't do it justice. What made it different to the
many others we have seen are the remains of the seven level pyramid
which was built in pre Inca times. 
The
drive into La Paz was incredible. We have seen some pretty untidy
towns in our travels but we drove through the stand out in untidy
towns as we approached the city. Viacha would be about a 30 minute
drive from La Paz if it wasn't for the traffic. It is effectively on
the outskirts of suburban La Paz and the airport from which we fly
out is located there but it is a complete mess in every sense of the
word - traffic, buildings and the road system.
Our
hotel is located in central La Paz, a remarkable city which s located
in the base of a giant bowl but the roads are narrow and there are no
traffic lights or indeed no rules. To compound the congestion, the
roads around and in front of the hotel have stalls on both sides
which means that cars and pedestrians are competing for the same
space. The only word is chaos.
We
have been left wondering why Peregrine brings its tour here.
Hopefully something will happen tomorrow which might improve our view
of the place.
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