Our bus left Uyuni at 7pm and arrived in La Paz around 6am. Since the road from Uyuni to Oruro isn’t paved (about a 3 hour bus ride) – we jumbled along, trying to sleep but being jolted awake with every pothole and giant rock that the busdriver couldn’t avoid on the road. I also got the seat next to the broken window that wouldn’t shut – with each jolt, it opened up just a little bit until it got so cold that it drew me out of my stage 2 sleep and I shut it. Halfway through the bus ride though, the heating was turned on, or at least it did for me. My feet became so warm then that I eventually threw off my blanket and relished the opened window for some cool air. Yup, they give you blankets on public overnight Bolivian busses. At first I was surprised, but I’m sure that if they didn’t, there would be news coverage of the people who lost fingers or toes to frostbite during the trip. It’s that cold.
We arrived home at 7am, I took a shower, and went to Alexander Café to spoil myself with some coffee and warm chocolate chip muffin. Everything is better when its warmed up. It was a pretty uneventful day – I tried to upload as many photos as possible and then later we walked around the city. I crashed pretty early that night.
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