Still in the same internet cafe in La Paz...I´ve decided to note some of the observations I´ve made along my journey through these impoverished lands, Peru y Bolivia.
The sights, smells while traveling... people in the countryside are used to harsh weather, sun up to sun down work, and terrible odors stemming from feces in the streets and around homes. I´ve found it is much more natural for an individual to pull their pants down and relieve himself-herself in the streets, whether for urination or hard feces, without toilet paper or any cleanup process, than to wait it out and find a public baño. This leads to long bus rides sitting next to women and men that smell like poop, literally. The most noziating (sp?) smell on the plant!
The cocaine... the nightlife around both of these countries gets very tangled up in hard drugs, mainly cocaine. The upper classes that go out to discotecas (only they can afford them) will find bathrooms, backrooms, or the bar to sniff up a line or more of coke, halla as it is referred to here. It is very out in the open. Conversations at lunch might be centered around where to find the best halla. In Bolivia, halla is thought to be the most pure in the world besides in Colombia. Regardless, it just needed to be noted considering this would definitely not fly in the states or in most western countries. Maybe we have a jaded view of halla or maybe they do, who is to say.
The food... I´ve found that the national food of both Peru and Bolivia has to be rotissarie (sp?) chicken with fries; ok, it might not be the national food, but the stuff is eaten everywhere!
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