{"id":356,"date":"2002-01-27T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/2002\/01\/27\/la-paz-bolivia-december-2001-by-jacqui-formerly-living-in-london\/"},"modified":"2002-01-27T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-27T23:00:00","slug":"la-paz-bolivia-december-2001-by-jacqui-formerly-living-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/la-paz-bolivia-december-2001-by-jacqui-formerly-living-in-london.html","title":{"rendered":"La Paz,\n Bolivia December 2001 by Jacqui formerly living in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n Hola, mis amigos, here&#039;s another instalment of my Peruvian<br \/>\n adventure in southern Peru. As I write this I am in La Paz,<br \/>\n Bolivia, and the headache I have is directly due to the altitude.<br \/>\n When in doubt, blame it on the altitude! It was amazing to arrive<br \/>\n in the afternoon yesterday and see the city spread before us in to<br \/>\n the crater in which it has grown. So many buildings and so packed<br \/>\n in, the mountain of Illimani towering beyond the rim and the<br \/>\n slowing more narrow and car clogged streets as we descended into to<br \/>\n the melee. Today has been most relaxing, with five letters at the<br \/>\n poste restante (muchos gra&ccedil;ias Robyn &amp; Peter, Jan, Anne<br \/>\n and John Dillon, Mum and Dad), money changed, the new Harry Potter<br \/>\n movie to look forward to and lots of interesting things in the<br \/>\n streets to see and potentially buy. After this we head to Potosi<br \/>\n and the silver mine, to Sucre and its colonial splendour, and then<br \/>\n across the salt and mud flats of the Atacama before crossing into<br \/>\n Chile for Christmas in San Pedro de Atacama.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n So, between Lima and now, we have been travelling pretty well.<br \/>\n South of Lima we visited the area near Paracas called the<br \/>\n Ballestras Islands (or &acute;Poor man&#039;s Galapagos&acute;).<br \/>\n Lots of sea lions, gannets, guanu, and cormorants. There were a few<br \/>\n penguins, and a carving into the coast line that has the same time<br \/>\n date as the Nazca lines that was very impressive. A good<br \/>\n mornings&acute; outing! Next we camped for a couple of nights near<br \/>\n some Inca ruins in Puerta Inca, the original port for Cusco. It is<br \/>\n hundreds of miles from the Inca capital and had the most<br \/>\n consistently strong pounding waves that I have ever heard. There I<br \/>\n felt the earth move&#8230;yes, it was an earthquake, about 4 on the<br \/>\n Richter scale (as we found out the next day) and the cause of the<br \/>\n landslide that delayed our departure by a few hours. Quite exciting<br \/>\n really but nice to know that no-one was hurt.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n On to Arequipa and the colonial beauty that is being preserved<br \/>\n there, along with the mummies found on the peaks of surrounding<br \/>\n mountains that date from Inca times and show researchers more about<br \/>\n the Inca&acute;s, their life, religion and death.<br \/>\n &acute;Juanita&acute; is the most famous mummy and it was quite<br \/>\n macabre to stand and look at this young girl who died so long ago<br \/>\n and which the frozen mountain top has preserved so well. The Santa<br \/>\n Catalina Convent was another highlight. I simply could not stop<br \/>\n taking photos as around every corner was another lovely vista. It<br \/>\n is still a working convent for the enclosed order that has been<br \/>\n there since the 1600s. From Arequipa, we crossed the pampas to get<br \/>\n to Colca canyon, passing llama, alpaca and vicu&ntilde;a camelids<br \/>\n on the way. After a night camped on the rim of the canyon, we<br \/>\n waited patiently for the condors to bless up with their presence.<br \/>\n One eventually came in response to a badly played rendition of<br \/>\n &acute;El Condor Pasa&acute;, and we all have the photos to prove<br \/>\n we have seen one. It was truly magnificent and worth the wait as<br \/>\n the one condor that rose on the thermal currents was a real showman<br \/>\n and he swooped and glided right at and around us before vanishing<br \/>\n into the far blue yonder.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Cusco was the next city of note and there everyone took the chance<br \/>\n to relax and roam. I had even more time than most as I had decided<br \/>\n not to risk my ankle on the Camino Inca, in order to see Machu<br \/>\n Picchu. So an extra couple of days in Cusco, and then the train to<br \/>\n Aguas Calientes. Machu Picchu may be further enhanced by having<br \/>\n hiked towards it for three days but I still thought that it was<br \/>\n magic and did not want to leave even after eight hours. The trip<br \/>\n back to Cusco was prolonged due to a landslide, but this was Peru<br \/>\n so getting stressed about it was a little pointless. And yes,<br \/>\n drinks at the CrossKeys were had! Puno was a bit of a non-event and<br \/>\n the boat trip to see the Uros Islands a glorified shopping trip,<br \/>\n but Lake Titicaca was in her best garb and looked beautiful. So,<br \/>\n here I am in La Paz and have received another letter and am headed<br \/>\n back to the hotel to relax after a heavy day shopping and<br \/>\n sightseeing. We did not get to see Harry Potter yesterday as it was<br \/>\n completely dubbed in Spanish. That&lsquo;s life!\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Thanks Jacqui and keep us posted! If anyone would like to contact<br \/>\n Jacqui, her e-mail is: <a HREF=\"&#109;&#x61;&#105;&#x6c;t&#x6f;:&#106;&#x61;&#99;&#x71;u&#x69;t&#114;&#x6f;&#116;&#x74;e&#x72;&#64;&#121;&#x61;&#104;&#x6f;o&#x2e;c&#111;&#x6d;\"><b>j&#97;&#99;&#x71;&#x75;&#x69;t&#114;&#111;&#x74;&#x74;&#x65;r&#64;&#121;&#x61;&#x68;&#x6f;o&#46;&#99;&#111;&#x6d;<\/b><\/a>\n <\/p>\n<p>\n What have you seen on your travels? Drop a line to the Beetle! <a HREF=\"#Beetle\">the Beetle<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hola, mis amigos, here&#039;s another instalment of my Peruvian adventure in southern Peru. 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