Early start and straight into mountains heading for the Bolivian border at 3500m. We headed up a long valley - the river seemed to be flowing uphill?
Used up our remaining Arg pesos at a tiny roadside stall. The crossing was quite easy - Jamie got out of Arg without his entry forms copies and Sean (USA) got into Bolivia with no visa - they issued him one on the spot ($135). The other 2 had bought theirs in advance (slow learners after missing their flight to Brazil for not having visas). A bit lucky because either of these problems could have held us up for hours or even days.
Almost everytown has a Christ statue or a lrge cross on a hill
The people started looking "Bolivian" (bowler hats, square shaped bodies (women), colourful clothing). The buildings had been largely adobe construction since the last bit of Argentina and this increased dramatically. We were feeling the altitude already. The scenery was spectacular - coloured cliffs and shaped mountains.
These 'new' areas are in a lot of towns. Exactly the same houses in rows. These are different as they had Che Geuvera and others painted on the water towers.
Reminder - we cannot use our laptop up here until we go below 3000m. We pulled into a beautiful flat bottomed canyon for the night. Obviously a river bed but we just crossed fingers. The boys had enough ooomph to scale the canyon edge just as the sun set. It was still pretty spectacular from the bottom. J had serious headache by now and not feeling well. This is our final camp night!!! Downside that we had to sweep the tent out for the next user.
This really was the most specatular camp we have had the whole way around South America. Photos do not do it justice.
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