The Lady of Peace - Bolivia

After Machu Picchu we headed back to Cuzco and took a full day bus tour to see some of the ruins outside of the city. Then we hopped on a 10 hour bus to Puno (stink hole of Peru... pretty much just a stopping point before heading to Bolivia). We did have a funny encounter in Puno though. We ended up sharing a little apartment style room (3 bedrooms and a living room/dining area) with these 3 Irish guys. We end up going for dinner with them and it isn´t until about an hour in to the meal that we all realize we were in the same hostel room in Cuzco. The conversation went kind of like this "Were you the people that arrived at 6:30 am and turned on the lights?" To which my response was "Oh were you the guys who turned on all the lights at 2am the next night and I woke up and asked you what time it was?" "Ha-ha ha oh yeeah that was us!". It was pretty random. Even more so because Andy left his shades in that hostel room and those guys saw them but decided to leave them there.



Now we are in La Paz, just relaxing and checking out the big market here before our 12 hour overnight bus to Uyuni where we are headed on a 3 day tour of the Salt Flats. Oh and guess who were the trivia champions last night!! (Andy, Me, some random Canadian guy we met, and 3 Irish guys who´ve been traveling for almost a year - they were the dominating forces for sure). One of the questions was "What does La Paz translate to?" I thought it was "The Peace" but turns out that it was "Lady of the Peace", hence the title of this post ;).

More to come...

p.s. Here´s the site of some other traveler´s (Ariana and Carmen) that we met at Agua Caliente - stopping point before Machu Picchu. They have better photos posted on their blog: http://www.arianaperu.blogspot.com/