oruro
from there we all traveled to ororo for carnaval. every town and country celebrates it in its own way, and oruro celebrates with a week long celebration of a goddess. the dancers start at one end of the town, and end up in the cathedral, where they get blessed. this dancing, drinking, and pegging people with carnaval foam and water balloons went on for 5 days straight. not kidding. we went to bed a 6 one morning, woke up for breakfast (it was free at our hotel, so ofcourse we set our alarm) at 8, and the dancers were still parading through the streets. daisuke, one of our new friends from japan, also brought an outfit( vegeeta from dragon ball z ) from japan so it was hilarious to see him dancing around…although we were prime targets for water balloons.
getting to the bus station was also tricky because we had all of our bags and could not move as fast, but we made it out alive…
from there we said our goodbyes since i needed to head back south to bs as, and i spent another night back in potosì. well, more like another day in a hostel, since it was carnaval here as well, but there were more kids dumping water off their roof, as well as drive-by super soakers…
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