peru_mischief ([info]peru_mischief) wrote,
@ 2006-06-19 10:12:00
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Current location:Copacabana, Bolivia
Current mood: cheerful
Current music:The live saxophone group we watched next door

¡Bolivia!

Currently paying 7.5 bolivianas a night at a fairly decent hostel (24 hour hot showers!). The stinge in me got their price down from 10, still working vaguely in Peruvian soles. Perhaps twenty minutes later we converted it back into pounds and broke into fits of laughter- that´s about 40/50p. Bolivia is CHEAP! and this is the touristy section too.
Finally caved in and bought an alpaca jumper- i´d been resisting on principle in Peru because they´re a good ten pounds, ridiculous! Managed to get one here for the princely sum of the equivalent of three pounds. Nice!
Though I can certainly feel "Gap year tragedy" setting in- a slow but certain conversion into a hippy that seems pretty damn inevitable to all us gap year lot. Grr. (ie, longer hair, trousers repaired with safety pins, peruvian "chompas" and the ever wonderful peruvian hat).

It´s a worrying sign.

Anyways, we´re (there´s a good group of us at the moment, staying together until La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, in a couple of days) off to the famous Island of the Sun on Lake Titicaca tomorrow- it´s rumoured to be stupendous.


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[info]plumsyke
2006-06-20 02:24 am UTC (link)
havent you already been to lake titicaca? or did you just like typing it so much you were displaying it for the fun of it?

aaaand... that hat! durr. thats not what i was envisioning upon description.
those are canadian hats. they're famously associated with our igloo-houses.

*nods*

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[info]peru_mischief
2006-06-21 11:12 pm UTC (link)
yeah, saw the peruvian side before!
damn canucks- you can´t steal hats like that!

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[info]chilean_meow
2006-06-20 08:07 am UTC (link)
No no, they are South American!! Found bloody everywhere, and simply fantastic, although those who wear them often end up getting "Braided LLama Boy" or similar...
Also, Iain, this Europe malarky, how long were you thinking and where? I know you probs don't have room in your head to think about it at the mo, but let me know if you have any plans!!

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[info]peru_mischief
2006-06-21 11:14 pm UTC (link)
methinking mightily cheap and mightily zippy at the start of september, destinations are ago-go!
Signed, Llama boy (i was named Archie on the bus today then told I looked dutch. worrying!)

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[info]just_meandering
2006-06-20 10:38 am UTC (link)
Oh yes, foreign prices are awesome. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Darn British taxes, or whatever the difference is.
Of course, you realise that your haggling was probably the hotel's entire profit :P
Off to NZ!

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[info]peru_mischief
2006-06-21 11:14 pm UTC (link)
Lol, most likely
You appear to have vanished from MSN?

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[info]raven_03
2006-06-23 06:53 pm UTC (link)
Yes, I was adamant I would not join the hippy crowd in India but after purchasing fisherman trousers I was doomed. Just go with the flow, once you get back those clothes will never bee seen again. Mine can't as they are far too unsuitable for Scottish weather >.>

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