People you can trust

Knowing who to trust in Bolivia is a complex business. Like I said, they will tell you anything in order to get you to buy their product.

After we were done with out tour, the guide dropped us of at the bus station so we could check on bus schedules and prices. As soon as we got of the can, people swarmed on us, trying to sell tickets from there to Mars, direct and connecting to up to three other planets.

Tal, Rosanne and I were off to La Paz, a twelve hour journey that would seen longer than my 70 hour bus ride from Santiago to Sao Paulo. Apparently, there were no direct buses to La Paz. We had to take a bus to Oruru and switch buses at 2 in the morning. The whole thing would cost 4 dollars.