bolivia rules the world! (written by Micah)

Twas upon leaving uyuni
the bolivians got a bit moody
for twas not one hamburger no
but four on the go
that led to a bus rather fumy!

Howdy all!
Well we are certainly anjoying ourselves now! We slept for 14 hours last night, after a 3 day tour of the Andes ion a jeep, arising at 4am both mornings, and then an all night bus ride to where we are now... cochabamba! This town rules bolivia.. which rules the world (or should!) the best fruit salads you aver ate for 50c... delicious rice and spud things bought from little stalls on the street... they almost beat the 50c hamburgers with chips and banana inside them in Uyuni! People sell pineapple in chunks on the street, and juices, and everything good for so dang cheap! Everyone looks healthy and happy too! Salad comes with everythjing. This town is like your classic madness tooting horns everyone trying to get where they are going hot dusty sth american town. It rules. The busses have flames and art painted all over them... there are trees filling the streets... and stalls selling delicious empanadas everywhere. I finally bought a guitar this morning form the markets... made here in cochabamba. I ended up forking out a fair $240 for it, but it is a beautiful nylon string with inbuilt pickup and a hard case, which would cost that much by itself back home. I have already written a song for it too. Gettying used to being a foreigner and being 18inches taller thn eveybody else...
The jeep tour was loose. we ended up with five israelis... which despite prejudices turned out fine, except for when one of them demanded more food on the last night from our poor guides who spend 16 hours a day driving and cooking for us... I guess he just didn´t syop tio thionk that we are in one of the poorest countries ion the world... where they themselves are perhaps stryggling to feed their family.
The highlands are an incredible magical mystical cold still dry desolate yet rich place, inspring meditation and calm awe. Rooms are very zen, cold with little paraphenalia anywhere, concrete or mud with a bed. but that is all one needs, and it makes me wish for less and less. We saw some incredible geysers, volcanos, and green, red and white lagoons filled with flamingos! They were my fave.
Now we are descending into the tropical heat. Still at 2700 metres, it feels like a good 28 in the day. Tomorrow we head for villa tunari & inti warri yassi. After that we will be floatin down the amazon in a hammock!
I am buzzing to the brim and so happy this dream is finally becoming a reality.
Aha we have photos finally.
All the best to the munter that bothers to read
Micahj