You Need to Move Your Bus Across the Lake? Use My Raft!

Here is a picture of our bus on its little raft. I took it while I was in the boat where all the people had to go. At first I was kind of annoyed about having to get off the bus and pay for another ticket to ride the boat, but when I saw this raft thing I was happy that I wasn´t trapped inside the bus as the raft capsized and it sunk to the bottom of the highest navigable lake in the world. Well, that didn´t exactly happen, but it very well looks like it could have, as evidenced in this picture.

Some other funny things about the bus - this one has ¨Leon de Juda¨airbrushed on the side, which means, ¨Lion of Juda.¨ The owner of the bus seems to be not at all shy about his faith. Also, on the way into La Paz, we passed a big church that had a parking lot full of buses in front of it and a priest was blessing each bus.

My favorite bus thing though, was on the ride out of Lima, when one of the attendants came around and passed out bingo cards! Then he got on the PA system and we all played bingo. The prize? A return ticket to Lima. The winner was invited to give a speech over the PA, in which he fervently thanked the bus company for the excellent entertainment and for the generous prize. He also thanked his family and all of the other passengers for playing. It was great fun.