Thought we may make
La Paz if the road improved. The road was if anything worse than
yesterday dusty, rough, busy and of course very narrow in places.
Didn’t have to reverse too many times for passing traffic.
Found a spot off the
road about 2.30 for lunch. A guy miraculously appeared to look after
his bee hive so we invited him to lunch. What was left on his plate
went into a plastic bag for later. He asked for shoes and trousers
but we said we didn’t have any.
Drove another 10km to
bitumen... at last. Pumped up the tyres blew out the air filters and
drove on still slow up, up and up.
At 4pm we decided
we would not make it out the other side of La Paz in daylight so turned
off to camp at a parque. Found a great spot with view but in site of
road so went down by a lake. Back at 4800m alt. and feeling it.