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Another overnight busride and man, this was classic ...
When we got to the bus, I normally sit on my own or with a stranger with Jo and Raaf next to each other.
This time I had a young mother of 25 years old next to me ...
Not only that, it was also her little 3 year old kid, 2 big bags, with within one of them a 3 months old dog.
It was quite clear that she had to occupy a little space of my chair.
No worries at all ...
After some stops though, the bus got overloaded and there were people sitting on their bags in the pathway ...
Their was one little girl like that, and in the end she just slept on my shoulder.
As it was so bloody hot, the dog looked like having a heart attack or something.
I was afraid that it was going to bark and hold it on my lap to calm it down.
I think it even had a little pee there too.
I couldn't really sleep during this 8 hour trip and at one point I heard some funny sounds.
As I looked down on my chair, next to my feet, there were 2 little chickens trying to escape ...
They were taken into the bus by the little girl who slept on my shoulder and her family ...
Anyway, to cut it off, it was quite an experience and quite typical as well ...
Tupiza itself is nice.
We actually got there to do some horseriding.
Yep, I can see you're thinking ...
I felt for it as well.
I thought it might be a nice experience for once as it was said that the surroundings were like the Wild West ...
I might feel like a Gaucho (=cowboy) at last ...
We had the choice of a day-ride a 2 day tour or a 5 day tour ...
We decided tot do the 2 day tour and thank God for it ...
It was nice, really put litterally a pain in the arsh ...
We had a German girl of our age as a guide.
We drove off and the surroundings were really beautifull.
We were all alone among coulourfull mountains.
The first day was 7 hours and I must say that if it was not for my guitar, I would have cracked ...
It was bloody hot and hard.
My horse was called Gauchio and appearantly he was loco.
Well maybe we had an understanding then, cause I had no problems with him.
The only hard thing was that when he went into a galop.
Mate, that was hard.
The first day ended at a very small village with no electricity at all ...
That means no cold beer as there's no fridge ...
But it was great.
Very friendly people and they offered us to watch a movie ...
Hold on, there's no electricity, so how can we watch a movie ...
Genius as they are, really people in Peru and Bolivia are really inventing ...
They had took the battery of a car for electricity.
There was 1 TV in the village, which swapped from house to house all the time.
For rewinding the video, they used a tool to manually rewind it.
I feel a bit ashamed that halfway we all felt asleep ...
Day 2 started off bad.
Stiff all over the place and I really thought I couldn't do it ...
Once riding, it was alright.
We took a different track back, passing another very little village.
What did I see there in the local 'supermarket' ?...
A poster of the Keukenhof, the famous garden of tulips in Holland.
Mate I live about 10 km from that place and I can't remember having been there before that time
and now I;m in the middle of nowhere, in a place without electricity, on the other side of the world
and I find this ...
Incredible ...
The tour ended quite scary and thankfully I sould hold on to my horse as we were followed by deadly acting dogs near the end of our tour.
It was beautifull though.
All the stiffness was worth it, but how hard it was 2 days of 7 hours horseriding when you've never done it before ...
Back in Tupiza, I paid a visit to a hairdresser and it was back in time again.
He sort of shave my hair with clippers.
We use a machine for that these days.
Also had a karaoke night with all locals which was really cool !
Next on the menu was going to be the beautifull tour of the Saltlake and lagunas ...
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