After our first day in La Paz I was describing the city. Now I know that I was wrong. It wasn´t La Paz I had experienced, it was one side of La Paz, a very traditional one. Yesterday the city offered us a totally different picure with western style dressed people enjoying the sunday on the street of 16th July, eating huge amounts of ice cream. Today, the first thing we saw when stepping out of our hotel was a procession of people walking down the steep hill. There must have been thousands, traditional dressed women and men walking in groups, never mixed, but demonstrating for the same cause. We didn´t find out what they were demonstrating for (better wages? better working or living conditions?) but the sight was impressive.
In the afternoon we walked up a hill to overlook the city and there was a new world there, too: School busses and uniformed children, kindergardens, protective dogs, factory workers rushing back to work after their lunchbreak and men repairing taxis on the street. The sun was burning down on us and Illumanis snow white peak glanced in the distance.
Motivation is rising to walk those mountains, the altitude sickness is vanishing.
Monday, 25 August 2008
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Jeg gleder meg hver morgen til å lese fra turen. Dere er flinke til å skrive! Jeg er sikker på at det er mulig å ta et intensivt spanskkurs, inklusiv guiding/rundtur i La Paz, på en dag eller tre. Det er nok nyttig på veien videre. Klem fra MOR
Ya i agree with what that guy said. HA! We want pics!
Austin, that guy is my mother! And we will post more pics when we get hold of a card reader. Eirik
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