Waiting in La Paz

Hurray, we are in Bolivia! The Bolivian airline company (Amaszonas) even took us on the morning flight from Santa Cruz to La Paz (with a stop in Cochabamba) instead of in the afternoon, so all the luggage would fit in the plane. We can even take the life vests with us to Rurre. For the people who have not seen them: we bring 15 live vests with us in a gigantic cardboard box (which is rapidly deteriorating with every flight, especially after waiting to be put in the plain in the pouring rain in Amsterdam), so we can make an excursion through the jungle with the school kids by boat. We had some worries because the last plane is a propeller plane with only 20 seats and a limited storage space for luggage, but for 50 dollars we could take our box and an extra suitcase. Air Europa, you can learn something from the service of Amaszonas!

So, we’re sitting here with blue lips because of the lack of oxygen and feel a bit dizzy. La Paz lies at an altitude of 3000 meters, which explains the slight discomfort (and limits our thinking abilities, judging by the amount of spelling corrections that needed to be made to this text). We have to wait a couple o f hours before we can continue our flight but we are sitting in a cafe with internet, so it’s time to blog and mail.
We had a reasonably good night of sleep. Unfortunately we were at the back of the plane next to the toilet, so each time somebody went to the toilet the light was shining in our eyes, but after our second dinner at 02.00 h at night, head phones with music on and a blanket over our head we managed to get some sleep in between the noises of a flushing toilet. We took some nice pictures of the Andes in the plane to La Paz. You can see them below. Click on (some of) the pictures for a larger version.