Bus journey from Pergatory
20th 21st and 22nd Jan. Road from Rurre to La Paz
So it turns out that Rurre can be quite a hard place to leave.
There is an airport but the landing strip is just grass so when there is alot of rain the planes don´t land.
So the planes weren´t running for a good few days and these people were starting to book up the busses. We had intended to go to Trinidad but that road was inpassable to busses so we decided to go back to La Paz and booked it before going on the Pampas tour.
It was due to leave at 11am on the 20th, it leaft around 1pm.
The road was so bumpy that the bags fell from the overhead storage onto my head.
Then by about 1am we got stuck behind a landslide which blocked the road.
After 10 hours some guys with shovels had made it just about passable.
Of course it was lashing rain the whole time.
So we headed on 24 hours after the departure time only to be blocked just up the road by another landslide.
This one needed plough trucks from La Paz.
So then we still had to drive all day the 21st arriving at the death road in the middle of the night.
We arrived into La Paz by 4:30 am on the 22nd a good 41.5 hours after our schedualed departure time.
At this point I had lost my ticked and had to fill in some red tape.
Then when we got to our planned hostel at 5:30 we found that it and all other hostels nearby were full because of a party to celebrate the new presedant.
We managed to get the night porter of one to let us sleep in an unusable room untill 7am and then went walking all over town to find accomadation. Tiring at altitude with hill and a big backpack.
Ah well you can´t have it all your own way.
So it turns out that Rurre can be quite a hard place to leave.
There is an airport but the landing strip is just grass so when there is alot of rain the planes don´t land.
So the planes weren´t running for a good few days and these people were starting to book up the busses. We had intended to go to Trinidad but that road was inpassable to busses so we decided to go back to La Paz and booked it before going on the Pampas tour.
It was due to leave at 11am on the 20th, it leaft around 1pm.
The road was so bumpy that the bags fell from the overhead storage onto my head.
Then by about 1am we got stuck behind a landslide which blocked the road.
After 10 hours some guys with shovels had made it just about passable.
Of course it was lashing rain the whole time.
So we headed on 24 hours after the departure time only to be blocked just up the road by another landslide.
This one needed plough trucks from La Paz.
So then we still had to drive all day the 21st arriving at the death road in the middle of the night.
We arrived into La Paz by 4:30 am on the 22nd a good 41.5 hours after our schedualed departure time.
At this point I had lost my ticked and had to fill in some red tape.
Then when we got to our planned hostel at 5:30 we found that it and all other hostels nearby were full because of a party to celebrate the new presedant.
We managed to get the night porter of one to let us sleep in an unusable room untill 7am and then went walking all over town to find accomadation. Tiring at altitude with hill and a big backpack.
Ah well you can´t have it all your own way.
posted by conor at 8:11 AM
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