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Monday 15th August 1977

La Paz - M - aeropuerto - Panama - Miami - 4 days to Montreal .....[diary ends]

Sunday 14th August 1977

It rained all day and was pretty gloomy. Read and went for a walk to a flower and fruit garden and bought loads of mandarins

Saturday 13th August 1977

Drank the San Pedro and walked up with John and Duncan to see John's hoped for house and land and walked to the top of a small hill. Came back and went swimming, reading and eating plenty of fruit, sale and peanuts and popcorn. Delicious coffee.

Thursday 11th August 1977

Got up in time for the Ferrobus train to La Paz. Met a very nice Bolivian girl called M and after I found a hotel, I took her out to a jazz concert

Wednesday 10th August 1977

Rested till three o'clock and went to the market which had beautiful woollen jumpers and ponchos. I was too tired to buy or haggle and so I went back to bed

Tuesday 9th August 1977

Arriving in Cochabamba early in the morning, I left my things in a hotel, had a hot shower there and set off to post letters, see the museums and "Los Portales" the old mansiuon on the edge of town. In the night I could hardly sleep because of a terrible stomach pain and I was violently sick and had diarrhoea a lot

Monday 8th August 1977 - Bolivia

I went to the tourist office first and then to the banks to get some desperately needed cash. Caught a taxi ($2 an hour) to Lake Uru-Uru which is a few inches deep only, but extends for miles and is covered with incredible varieties of wildlife - including flocks of thousands of red and pink flamingos. I bought my bus ticket and caught the overnight bus to Cochabamba

Sunday 7th August 1977 - Bolivia

Marcus left early for the Yungas. I didnt feel like getting up too much so I rested a while and seeing there was no bus to Cochabamba, I decided to go to Oruro instead. I arrived in Oruro in the evening, ate and went to bed early

Saturday 6th August 1977

Get up late and eat some magic cactus (San Pedro) and catch the bus to Cota-Cota. Puke and walk up the hill feeling a lot better. Bev amnd I watch the faces in the rock wall while the other five press on. Play in a warm valley watching the others at the top of the next hill and join them after a few hours. Stay to watch the incredible sunset, walk down and go home after a really great day

Friday 5th August 1977 -Bolivia

Go to the valley of the moon and the cactus garden and the folkloric show in the evening

Thursday 4th August 1977 -Bolivia

Go up to the mountain 18,500' and ski resort all day

Wednesday 3rd August 1977 - Bolivia

Go to Tijuanaca and see the ruins. Collect a crowd of locals round us and hitch backing a truck

Tuesday 2 August 1977 - Bolivia

Catch bus to La Paz. Get held up hours at the ferry

Titicaca - Monday 1st August

Swiss national holiday and we row and sail back with a sail made from a space blanket and two of the oars

Titicaca - Saturday 31st July 1977

Row out to the island of the sun (five hours) and walk over it and sleep there

Peru-Bolivia Saturday 30th July 1977

Get up early. Sell bus ticket to a girl from Hull and catch taxi to Frintier with German professor and the American couple. Walk and truck to Copacabana. Meet Bob, Mike and Marcus again

Peru - Friday 29th July 1977

Catch the train to Puno. Chew plenty of coca leaves with an Amercian couple (somebody fartin their brains out). Share room at Puno with two Amercians and a Swiss guy

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