Day 89: ´Very hard to succeed´

My journey north to Lake Titicaca gives me time to reflect on the words of an esteemed Israeli scholar (he was in the other jeep to mine), who often says; "It is very hard to succeed in Bolivia." (copyright Eli Cohen)

It´s a neat way of saying there are lots of frustrations for the traveller, such as dangerous roads, ill-informed guides who drop litter, a lack of hot water, poor food and painfully slow internet connections. And most bizarrely of all, the keys on the keyboards not actually typing what they say they type.

So although the rewards in Bolivia are rich indeed - amazing scenery and history - you need to earn them. But if it was a country where everything worked, with high-speed rail links, fibre optic broadband and gourmet restaurants, it would be Germany. Now I love Germany, but it´s not somewhere you go for adventure.

THING I DIDN´T KNOW BEFORE TODAY
On some Bolivian keyboards, to type @ you need to press SHIFT, then 6 and then 4