We left Puno on a day bus to travel across the border into Bolivia.
The process was interesting let’s say. We queued to get stamped out of Peru and then another queue to get stamped into Bolivia.
We had to take all our luggage off the bus and out it through the xray machine, but here’s where it falls down. We didn’t go through and machine or did they check what we had on our person. Next bit was a form we had filled out previously on an unsecure form, which generated a QR code, I would have assumed they scanned the QR code and check your name against your passport. Instead they took a photo of the QR code and then a photo of your passport. I did question our guide to what do they do if the forms wrong as they haven’t checked, do they come find you lol
La Paz is alot busier than the places we have been in Peru. We went to an English pub for dinner (was Andre’s choice not ours) and ended up doing karaoke again, which was great fun.
On our short walking tour when we arrived we went to the witchers Market, unlike Peru they are are big on magic here. Then freaky looking llamas you see above are in fact real! They burn sweet offerings to the gods, such as a sugar car if that is what the person wanted. The money here is beautiful!
Over half the group has gone to death road biking today (Saturday), so for the rest of us, it’s been a nice, easy day. Put laundry in, had a layin, late breakfast, and catching up on writing my blog. We welcome 5 new people into the group tonight, but sadly, we lose 3.
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