Blockades

An inconvenience more than anything else, local workers maybe farmers block the main routes between towns around Bolivia in protest every couple of weeks. Their beef is maybe to do with either the growth of the Coca leaf or the extraction of the natural gases I´m not entirely sure. So in order to travel from Uynui to Potosi I was advised to take the bus early and get off the bus at the blockade and walk around the town where another bus would be waiting out of sight around the corner. As we approached the blockage the locals fired off dynamite to warn us not to get too close. We all got off the bus and hiked over the mountain around the town with our backpacks about 2 kilometres to the other bus. It is a typical Bolivian experience that most folks just have to live with. The worst blockades are in La Paz and they can get pretty ugley so I´m hoping they will be over by the time I return.