Oruro Part II

Our Penthouse Suite

As I said in Part I, Carnival is huge here. Hotel rooms in Oruro are sold out at least a year in advance. We were "lucky" enough to get a room in a person's house. We were told that if we paid more we could get the matrimonial suite. So we did.

It was up three long, winding flights of stairs. The top one is on one of the pics. The ceiling was partially gone, we could see stars, but when it rained, and it did, the water, miraciously did not come into the room - stairs, bathroom, everywhere else, but not into our bedroom - and we had a queen size bed and it was very comfortable.

The bathroom, and we had the only private bath in the house, had a toilet, no seat - they do not use them here - and a tub. Weird set up because there was no shower curtain at all, but also no faucet, only the shower head. So, Joeline filled the tub, you know she has to have her baths, by letting she shower water fill it.

Two Japanese guys shared the other room at the top of our stairs and they had to go down two flights of stairs to us the bathroom. Talk about weird, they were obviously Japanese - hard to hide that, but they spoke French at night?

On the bottom floor, 9 people shared one bedroom and one bath. No bed, just slept on the floor.

Let's see, one girl was from Holland, 2 Brits, rest from other parts of South America.

I sat up Saturday night and drank toasts of Sangani with the locals and learned quite a bit. The first being that Sangain is really bad - and strong.

Luckily Joeline fianlly got out of the tub and came down to save me from going to the local "disco" with them.

Oh, least Joeline let me forget, there was one hand towell - no bathtowels. Needless to say, Joeline did not come out of the tub wrapped in one hand towell.

There was a part Dalmation, part Great Dane dog on the roof, along with a chicken?

The whole chicken? Never mind, old joke.

Castles - remember the Honeymoon Suite in La Fiesta in Matazlan? Well, similar .