Last year in Denmark we saw a
documentary from La Paz about the making of a skatepark. It looked pretty cool, in the middle of a forest and with a view over La Paz and Illimani. So when we came here we tried to go looking for it. On our first trip we followed an abandoned train track through the forest and found a fenced-in park, where we walked several kilometers on a small path along the fence in the forest before we found the entrance. We hung out there the rest of the day, saw a humming bird, had our lunch, but we never found the skatepark. The next week we checked again on the internet where the skatepark was, and this time we found it - almost right next to where we had walked but hidden from view the week before. It wasn't in the middle of a forest as I had remembered it in the documentary, but next to a playground and a residential area. But those playgrounds were pretty awesome, with the longest slides we've ever seen, with kids riding on flattened bottles, blankets or pieces of bark down the slippery concrete slides.
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