The Real Bolivia?

The plan was clear - headed back West and up the Andes to the regional city of Cochabamba. We got half way to the farming town of San Julian and got trapped by a farmer’s protest (they blocked all the roads with piles of soil). With the locals advising that the protest could last days, if not longer, we find a very small, very rough 120 km track to the north. The Troopy does well and we eventually arrive in the small city of Trinidad. We take a couple of days to recover and look around - it’s a tough cowboy town carved out of the jungle. There’s not too much of tourist value, but we do see a toucan up close. The new plan is to head direct to La Paz, but only 30km from town we come across another delay - a seriously bogged banana truck blocking the only road, with the situation deteriorating by the minute (driver’s increasingly blocking both approaches to the road). We take a chance to really test the Troopy and manage to get through the edges of the bog. The road is probably still blocked, but we managed to get through!Read more