Our initial plan was to get into potosi ( in bolivia ) after finishing uyuni. But after seeing what happened to everybody at high altitude papa decided that we give it a miss. But mamma really wanted to go. Mamma thought about it and told papa we could go to Sucre ( we were planning to go after potosi ) as it was low altitude and take a day trip to potosi. So thats what we were going to do. Papa bought tickets to Sucre and almost the whole uyuni group except for three were also coming to Sucre. At about 12 midnight the bus stopped and 3/4 of the bus left leaving the uyuni group and two locals. We stayed in the same spot for about 45 mins or something and so papa went out and asked the driver something and i dont know wht he replied saying but papa came back. Another 20 mins passed by and the bus conducter came in and said that this bus was not going to sucre and there was another bus that would go to sucre and there were only 4 seats. A local got angry and shouted at the guy and went back to sleep. None of the uyuni group knew what to do. a min later the bus started to move and we took a round of the city, realised it was potosi, and then the bus came back to the same road except on the other side. The guy came back in and said there was another bus going to sucre and all could get in. But by then the uyuni group decided that we should stay here because we wanted to come to potosi anyway. So all of us except one guy stayed. Potosi was great, we went to the silver mines and papa will explain potosi in detail. So potosi was great and we left to Sucre. The seven of us from uyuni had started travelling together. Sucre was great to, we had great meals and we were there on the race day where there were some race cars going around the city...it was great fun. We did not do much in the place but we loved it.Sucre going to La paz was where the uyuni group broke up. Four of us (which is basically papa, mamma and me and Dahlia) left to la paz and three stayed. In la paz we wanted to meet these friends of ours ( also from the uyuni trip ), but we did not meet them until late at night. but during the day we went searching for amazon tours. The next few days we searched for amazon tours with ion and susana...the friends from uyuni. We had a great time it was alot of fun. On the day we were going to book the tour our tour opereator girl told us that a friend had come four times in the day searching for us. we realised it was dallia ( the person who came with us from sucre to la paz. as we paid we met her and she joined the tour. Just before leaving for rurrenabaque we heard some bad news : the peruvian border had been shut down. It was because of the elections and some thing about gold mining. We thought it would be open as the elections would be over when we came back.The amazon was totally amazing. Papa or me will explain the whole thing in detail in another blog. when we returned the border was still closed. We gave it a day before we started thinking of another route. In the mean while we wanted to go to copacabana and isla del sol. we checked some guides and theysaid the route to copacabana was shut., and they would know if it opens at 3 pm. At 3 pm we heard that the route was open the next day. We got back to our house and then we bumped into Flavia's brother ( we were staying with flavia's boyfriend ) and flavia's guest.
She told us that the peru vian border was shut and there was no way to go. We could not even go by flight becausse a volcano erupted, there were no buses through brasil and the only way was to go through chile. Now that was a problem for us as our chilean visas had expired. Now we had to figure a way into peru before we got into copacabana because if we came back and the border would still be closed, we would not have anywhere to go. The Only way other than chile was to cross the border illegaly......
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