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Saturday, August 20, 2005

The highlands of Bolivia

Hello hello
yesterday i came back from a 4 day jeep trip in the highlands of bolivia. I went with Maya and 5 other isrelians. The wiew was fantastic, in the beginning it reminded me of Iceland, but only magnified by 20 times. The first day we went up to a glacier and saw a huge icecave, really beautiful. Om the way we got delayed because the people in one village decided to make a road block. In Bolivia if you are unhappy about anything you make it clear by making a road block. Very nice.
Anyway we got to the cave and it was beautiful. Then we had to go down with the jeeps because one child that was with us on the way was sick from the altidude.
The next day we hiked in a beautiful walley and saw nice hot springs (not as good as landmannalaugar though) The 3 day we went down from the highlands into the forrest and slept in hot weather outside, it was lovely but i got covered in mosquito bites.
The last day i went with the other group (a familuy from Israel)because my group didnt want to hike. So we walked for 3 hours in the forrest and i saw a beautiful big parrot, he sat on my shoulder and bit me. Nice. We thought that the father and the youngest boy stayed behind in the car but they came after us. Se didnt know so se kept on walking.Then at the end we found out that 2 people were missing, the father and a 10 year old son, somewhere in the forrest of Bolivia. We waited for 2 hours but they didnt show up, very frightening moments. We then decided to drive back to where we started. When we got closer every local Boliviano that lived there stoped us, did you loose a tourist_ they are in the village, very nice of them. So we found them after 3 hours or so. After that we returned to La Paz.

Tomorrow i will go for a 7 day jeep trip in the Salt lakes. I dont know if i will get access to the internet. Take care Stella
PS pabbi eg sendi kolbrunu post nennirdu ad fylgjas med ad yfirdraturinn haekki, hun er med undirskrift fra mommu med abyrgd fyrir 800000 svo tad a ad vera ekkert mal.

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