Road Blocks Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Page Content Page Name (for URL) Page Title Breadcrumb Text While having lunch in Potosi we heard on the news that "normalistas" (students studying to be teachers) have blocked the road from Oruro to La Paz. We've heard about road blocks in Bolivia before, and in fact were under impression that someone is always blocking some road in Bolivia, but the road from Oruro to La Paz was the only way to get from the part of Bolivia where we were to La Paz, northern Bolivia and then Peru, so it was getting personal. As we talked to more people, we heard stories about tourists trying to walk around road blocks and getting stones thrown at them. Most annoying was that we were about to get on a 7 hour bus to go to remote Uyuni, from which we originally planning to go to La Paz by bus (10-12 hours). If the road from Oruro was to be blocked, we would face three unpleasant options: wait in tiny Uyuni, wait in Oruro, take a bus back from Uyuni to Sucre (10-12 hours) and fly from there, or take a bus to Oruro (7 hours), then to Cochabamba (probably another 4), then fly to La Paz. Either way, we would end up losing a few days. We ended up deciding to just to to Uyuni and hope that the situation would resolve itself before we get to Oruro. It did - the police cleared the blockade the next day. Don't put anything here Advanced Fields Category 2002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014E. AsiaE. EuropeL's FamilyL's FriendsN. AmericaN. EuropeS. AmericaS. AsiaW. EuropeY & LY's FamilyY's Friends Prototype Redirect Permissions0 Actions Config Markup Module HTML/Meta/Keywords HTML/Meta/Description Save Hook HTML Fields Main Head Body Header Menu Logo Content Template Page Sidebar Footer Tags Allowed for XSSFilter HTTP Fields Cache-Control Expires Guru Fields Don't put anything here Templates Translations Fields Edit UI Admin Edit UI Don't put anything here A summary of your changes Edit Summary Don't put anything here save preview cancel
