Welcome to Bolivia 🇧🇴

We arrived at the Peru/Bolivia border at about 10.30am.  The procedure to get through was quite straightforward, but it still took until 1pm (Bolivia is one hour ahead of Peru) to get all of us and the truck stamped into a new country.  As soon as we were clear of the border, we stopped to change money with a guy at the side of the road who was giving a better rate against the dollar than the official one!

Immediately afterwards, we got held up in a queue of trucks just as we were passing a 'Welcome to Bolivia' sign.  It was another 45 minutes before we were clear and driving along the banks of Lake Titicaca once more, this time in Bolivia rather than Peru. 

We pulled in at the Tiwanaku archaeological site at 3pm.  Ritchie's intention had been to get us there much earlier to give us time to visit the site and have lunch.  In the event, however, we only had an hour, and all the restaurants in the vicinity were closed!  So, we bought crisps, Kit-Kats, and ice creams - a healthy lunch!  The archaeological site is supposed to be one of the most significant in Bolivia, but it didn’t seem worth buying a ticket and rushing around it in under an hour!

At 4pm, we continued on the road to La Paz.  We drove through very sparsely populated countryside with dramatic snow-capped peaks as a backdrop.Read more