Internet Cafes in La Paz

You walk into an internet cafe. By the way, you"re in La, Paz Bolivia. The sign out front says "internet". You go in and ask to guy in your most broken Spanish if he has fast internet connection. No problem my friend he says. Alright, buddy I"ll try your "internet" cafe, but have already been to like 5 and the computers functioned like the first Mac"s from the 1980"s. You sit down. There are keys on the keyboard, but there are no actual letters on them. In fact in appears as though the dude who owns the cafe, cut out magazine clippings of all letters of the alphabet and used scotch-tape to tape the letters down. YOu sit down, the screen stays blank for a good 5 minutes if your lucky. You usually always have to go back to the counter and say in your broken Spanish, hey dude, my computer is not on and if Im being charged by the hour, you better get thiis thing going and stop talking to yourone of many senoritas on the phone. He says tranquillomy friend. Sit down and Ill have it on. YOu sit back down. Now when the computer turns on, it sounds like a damn lawn-mower engine getting started. YOu sit for another 5 mintes. Finally a screen pops upwith icons. You then go to your yahoo mail account for example. Then the screen starts glitching and flickering. It then takes another 5 minutes to upload your email. Frustration starts to build. But, then again, you tell yourself that you are in BOlivia. Alright, I"ll have some patience. Then you get to your email and you start to type, replying to say an email from your dear old mother who"s been worried sick about you. And, if you"re not an Einstien at typing, you usually have to look at the keys and not the screen when you"re typing. Then after 5 minutes of typing you realize that the "n" key didnt work during the 5 mintes you were typing, nor did the "comma"key, nor did the "o" key. Ahhhhhhhhhh. You then give up on the email since most of the keyson this key board dont work. You then think, alright, have some patience, I"ll try uploading photos. YOu plug in your connection device, set your camera on its aother connection device. Now the screen starts flickering. The whole F-ing computer shuts down. YOu look at your camera and for some reason 50 photos have mysteriously dissapeared. You"re sweating bullets and steaming at the ears from frustration. You stomp your way to the counter. Listen buddy.your keys dont work, the connection is slower than the first computer invented, and mine just shut down. Where is a faster internet cafe you ask him. He replies, "AMIGO, THIS IS THE FASTEST INTERNET CAFE IN ALL OF LA PAZ (and this is the capitalcity of Bolivia?)..........YOu pay him his money for his crap computer and realize internet is quite hopless in Bolivia. This time, I had to bribe the Bolivian Bill Gates tolet me use is laptop to even post this..........Well, thats Bolivia for ya.....

Internet Cafes in La Paz

La Paz, Bolivia