>The trip, by bus, takes an entire night. Airline, the distance is only 300-400 km. The road has many curves, you see, among the mountains.
One thing I forgot to mention is that it isn't advisable to travel by bus when:
a) There is heavy rain. This can make the roads impassable for 12 hours or more.
b) When some not-so-content group threatens to block the roads. Unfortunately, this happens frequently. One of those groups, often involved in unrest (but not the only one!), is the coca farmers. I mentioned earlier that coca leaves are legal in Bolivia. However, due to outside pressure - mainly, from the U.S.A. - the Bolivian government is trying to erradicate all coca plantations in the country. This creates a lot of unrest lately.
In both cases, you have the risk of staying stuck "in the middle of nowhere"...
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
