As anticipated, we had a trying last few days in Melbourne as we got ourselves organised to go. It was all very tiring. I managed to get an acid burn on my arm (from oven cleaner), a cut on my head (from banging it on a garage door), and a badly bruised elbow (from a washing machine incident).
We had some late nights and early starts for a wee while, stealing a few hours of sleep wherever we could. Then tried again to get some sleep on the flight to Santiago. I managed about an hour because the guy next to me seemed to think he had paid for a quarter of my seat too. No personal space. And he was smelly.
We arrived in Santiago a bit wasted. We got to our hotel about 1130am, then slept from 130pm until 630am the next morning. Stole almost a whole day of sleep.
Well rested, we headed straight for the funicular up Cerro San Cristobal to a big statue of the Virgin Mary. Unfortunately the funicular was undergoing repairs, so we had to walk up. The path up goes all the way around the hill, then zigzags up the side. And it's a long walk - 5km or so uphill. Most of that time the Virgin was out of sight - Kirsten reckoned she was playing hard to get.
The view from the top was smoggy and generally pants. But the walk was good.
The next morning we headed back to the airport to get our flight to La Paz. The drive from La Paz Airport down to the city was pretty amazing. This is a photo of the view that doesn't do it justice.
We head to Sucre tomorrow on the overnight bus. Looking forward to some Spanish lessons there.
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