So to cut a long story short, we moved about 10kms in some 17 hours! After a What an experience and a bit scary at times. Started by the miners to miners’ detonating dynamite around the desert. We were stuck in the middle of nowhere, with little water, luckily some leftover food from lunch and on a very cold bus with notĮnough clothes! Loads of passengers just got off the bus and started to walk as we had no idea how long we would be stuck for! We experienced everything from moving inches per hour to many fires Hopefully by morning the miners would let some of us through. So we were informed that we had to sleep on the bus and Vehicles, it was confirmed later that we were among some thousands of vehicles stranded on the popular Cochabamba to La Paz route. Well from early afternoon it soon turned dark and night was upon us. With under paid miners striking and making road blockades – this is not uncommon. For your information, it is a forever-recurring theme in Bolivia (especially from our experiences) Hit a road blockade and were suddenly at a stand still as the Bolivian miners were striking.
The bus ride was supposed to only take 6 hours, but it turned into a 24-hour marathon bus ride! Yes, this is NOT a misprint! About 4 hours into the journey we After lunch Gustavo was kind enough to take us to the bus station. Before leaving Cochabamba we enjoyed a superĪuthentic Bolivian lunch with Pablo and Gustavo (thanks for treating us to lunch as well – very nice of you). Way Gustavo, any takers for the black tea yet? Hahaha lolĪfter a few great days in Cochabamba we were back on a bus heading to the capital city of Bolivia, La Paz. So nice to meet you all as well and hope your travels are going well! Thanks again Pablo, Monica and Gustavo as you are such lovely and generous people. A couple from Cordoba, Argentina as well as Flurina from Bern,
We also got to meet four other couch surfers that were there when we arrived in Cochabamba. So much fun to walk around and reminded us so much of Asian markets! We were able to buy food and wine for 6 people for $10 (as we cooked for our hosts)! We also visited the “Mercado Central” where they sold everything from clothes to food and more! Probably one of the coolest mercados we have been to so far in It had a gorgeous main plaza (check out the pictures), was easy to walk around and had an amazing big Cristo! Bigger than the Cristo in Rio and only recently been relegated to the second What a fantastic few days we had seeing the cityĪs well as hanging out with these nice people! Although Cochabamba and the local region is known internationally more for the wrong reasons (ie the cocaine trade), we really thought a lot of theĬity. Result in a plunge of anywhere to 400 metres! Plunge = fatality! Scary!įrom the bus terminal we got a taxi to our next couch surfing host, Pablo and his parents, Gustavo and Monica.
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The roads are all dirt and any form of driver error can The buses in Bolivia are by far the worst we have experienced in South America to dateĪnd the roads are equally as dodgy! No paved roads like Europe, USA or Australia or for most parts of the developed world for that matter. After another bumpy overnight bus ride we arrived in Cochabamba at 6am.
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