Wednesday, March 9th - La Paz, Bolivia

We definitely slept in and once we were up we had to rush to get to the breakfast area before breakfast was finished.  A few people came in while we were up there and it seemed that everyone was taking it easy this morning, the first day free of a tour wake-up call.  We lingered over breakfast, said goodbyes to some more of the group as they were leaving later in the day, and eventually started making plans for the day.

Our first stop was at the travel agent down in the lobby to see if we could book both a tour to Lake Titicaca and a tour to the Amazon.  I think that probably took us about three hours in total but by the time we were finished Gillian, Randy and I had both tours booked.  We went for a three day, two night tour of Lake Titicaca with a night in Copacabana and a night on Isla Del Sol as well as a three night, two day tour of the Amazon to end our Bolivian holiday.  We also booked our flights to and from Santa Cruz for the 12th to 18th and our flights to and from the Amazon.  All we have left to book are three nights of accommodation around the Amazon tour: the nights before and after the Amazon tour in Rurrenbaque and the final night in La Paz before we all fly out on the 23rd.

 

After finishing the bookings we went out for lunch at the little coffee shop across the street.  It was a very small place with very few seats but it was obviously popular and the food was great.  Charles is still with us today so there were four of us at this stage - quite a change from the sixteen all the time on the tour.

I then took some time to go back to our room and repack for the next tour and rest a bit.  Gillian went to the Coca Museum which she had not visited when we were in La Paz earlier.  Then we met Charles and a couple of others from the tour who happened to be still around the hotel for dinner.  We just went next door to the British pub and had some wholesome British food.  I couldn't decide between the shepherd's pie and the chicken pot pie but went for the latter and it was great.  It wasn't a very Bolivian end to our tour but it sure was delicious.  After dinner we simply went back to our rooms to get to sleep early as we had a 6:45 departure in the morning.