Day 56 La Paz to Lahuachaca

Wel after being unwell yesterday I was not looking forward to the climb back out of La Paz, but it went better than I thought.  So we were back on the Alti Plano which we will cross for most of our visit in Bolivia.  It is a vast plateau and varies in altitude by only a few hundred metres.  It has to be one of the most boring places to ride as it is just endless "flat" roads which are almost always going in a straight line.  A curve in the road or a slight up or down makes a few exciting minutes.  There are no snow capped mountains to look at and it is just a wide flat dusty plateau with brown hills either side.  So the riding for a lot of us is rather boring, some of the Dutch guys enjoy it as it is not as flat or featureless as Holland!
We ended the day after 135K in an "Eco Hotel" which had individual little cottages and very few facilities.  It was interesting but quite basic.  One feature it did have was very low doorways on some of the communial buildings, which I managed to smash my head against!  Now as most of you may know I have not got much hair on top and Didier, our nurse, insisted in shaving some of it off so that he could put some plaster stiches across the wound to help it heal!!  So my day ended with a fairly big cut on my head and a bit of a headache, ah!!