Bolivia
Hostal - Hosterjia - Hospedia - Alojamiento. Gravel and concrete road.
until Saturday, 12/09/2006 Friday, 15/12/2006
The ride on Lake Titicaca was without incident. With 7 crew and "Oscar" of Tourismusbuero we stand on Saturday, 06/30 clock in lake and are after 9 hours on the other side, where we put - there is no port - against a breakwater and unloading my luggage is the daredevil adventure, but ended happy.
Nur noch 9 km bis zum exklusiven Bad Copacabana, wo ich ein Hotelzimmer fuer 5 USD miete. Die Fahrt am naechsten Morgen nach La Paz wird ein wunderschoenes Erlebnis. Es geht vom See (3.811 m) auf ueber 4.250 m hoch und man faehrt auf einer schmalen Landzunge zwischen zwei Seen, wobei man eine malerische Landschaft ueberblickt. In Huatajato besuche ich das Kon tiki Museum, fuehle superleichtes Balza-Holz und stelle mir vor, wie Toor Heyerdahl das Holz von hier nach Puno und dann 4.000 m tiefer zum Meer gebracht hat.
Bei der Hotelsuche in La Paz erweisen sich die fehlenden Sprachkenntnisse als Manko. Bisher hatte ich in allen spanischsprechenden Laendern (und auch noch in Copacabana) eine Uebernachtung unter "Hostal, Hosteria, Hospedia or hotel" found. After that I seek. This is called the "Accommodation (accommodation), to such I had driven past. It was only when I ask at a gas station, I was unclear about the different name.
From La Paz it is a lovely, flat landscape at 4,000 m altitude. Hardly slopes, nothing to remember of rainy season. The route of the next day run at the old mining town of Oruro and the landscape is different from the previous day's hard. Heading shepherds, poor clay villages, street workers, with whom I Breakfast. It rolls "like old times" and the altitude acclimatization seems to have succeeded. prevails in Oruro the total traffic chaos: narrow one-way streets, cracked walkways, honking motorists, and in between people and the odd cyclist who found themselves helpless vollkommmen. From Oruro there are up to the Chilean border 246 km. But what for that: 44 km normal concrete road - 60 km gravel road "at its best (almost only corrugated sheets, speed around 8 km / h) - the next day, 70 km each, is mirror-smooth concrete road (built just done) without any joint impact, the best I've driven in my entire trip - and little traffic. Abrupt discontinuation and re-gravel (30 km in 3 1 / 2 hours). Then it's 42 km "gravelly" to the Chilean border, with some pitches (two times of 3,800 m 4,050 m added). The Split on the raised sides of the street (you drive right or left, depending on road condition) lets the HR a few times and I end up slipping on the road.
hoped after the border crossing I smooth asphalt, but it goes on with some gravel. Of two planned days to Iquique in Chile, 3 1 / 2 days. The nights from Oruro helped the tent back to his Daseins-/Mitnahmeberechtigung, far in Chile.
Stats
624 km (+ 12 km), Hm 1993, 42:06 hrs (55:10 hrs)
6 days, seven days a week, 1 Transporttag
110 km/Tag, 14,8 km/Std, 380 Hm/Tag, 319 Hm/100 km
Tourverlauf:
Copocabana (Bolivien) - San Pedro de Tiquina - mit der Faehre nach San Pablo de Tiquina - Huarina - Huatajato (Kon tiki Museum) - La Paz - Patacamaya - Oruro (1) - Toledo (NS, noch Betonstrasse) - Pisiga Bolivar (Grenzuebergang zu Chile, NS, Strasse wie oben beschrieben) - Colchane (Grenzort auf chilen. Seite) - weiter bis Quebe (Chile).
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