Saturday 29th March 2025 La Paz to San Pedro de Tiquina
After a tough long day yesterday, we were uo at 6, need to pack the bags, breakfast and clean the apartment a little as we had both bikes in the shower, as well as a load of bike maintenance in the front room, all looked spic and span my the time we had given it a once over. Taxi picking us up at 8, just taking us out of the city centre.

All sorted in plenty of time, got the bikes and bags out on to the manic main street, strangely named 16th July, no idea why! Loaded the bikes on top of the taxi even the taxi driver took a picture of it, maybe for insurance reasons, who knows all the gear in the boot. Off we go through the congested streets of downtown La Paz, been a strange stay, but like the quirky aspect of the City and the people very nice, especially the Air BB owner and all the guys from “Evolution Adventure Travel”

Taxi dropped us off at the beginning of Route 2, on the way to Lake Titicaca and the little town of Tiquina, what we did not know was, we still had another 15 miles of urban sprawl before we got out into the countryside, a lot of stop start horn blowing some times think their horns are connected to the brake pedal. it was a pleasure to get out of the city, nice road now eating up the miles, as Lake Titicaca came into view.

Ringo chose the meal stop, row of tents by a football pitch, not much on the menu just trout from the lake and a few vegetables, managed to get some rice, pasta and potatoes, not the best but needed some food, ate that and back on the bikes. Heading for a little ferry across the narrowest bit of the lake, steep descent into the quaint village Tiquina, straight onto the barge, guided by the captain, across the wonky planks, within 5 mins we were motoring across the lake, took about 15min, then off the other side upto the Hotel that young Ringo had booked.

Hotel was like an old manor house backing on to the lake, very quirky and we were the only guest, Andre the host made us very welcome, asked us what we would like to eat, thing got a bit lost in translation as Bingo had the trout, Ringo and I had omelet with nice potatoes and salad.

Another long day in saddle, so an early night for all.