We'd planned to carry on the adventure with a trip to the famous Bolivian salt flats - home to lagoons, geysers, trick photography and starry nights. But with road blocks and protests running all the way south, it wasn't to be. We're going to wait a few weeks and return to Bolivia through Chile's Atacama desert.
So in the interest of thawing out our frost bite, we decided a little sadly, to leave bright lights and friends in La Paz behind and catch the bus to Cochabamba. There's not a lot to say about Cochabamba apart from it's a pretty colonial city, apparently in the top 3 in Bolivia, that feels more like a village. It's extremely laid back and the sun shines everyday. We did catch Bolivia's final day of Independence celebrations there, so we were treated to marching bands and military processions. But wiith everything else shut down for family celebrations, the plaza made the perfect place to read a book in the sun.
After a couple of nights in town, we caught a flight out of Cochabamba's little airport to the equally sleepy city of Asuncion in Paraguay...
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