As many of the streets in the city centre have been sealed off I decide to take the cable car up to one of the main attractions in Cochabamba.
El Cristo de la Concordia, is a towering concrete structure of Christ with outstretched arms, not dissimilar to the one in Rio. The cable car isn't working and the walk to the top of Cerro San Pedro looks arduous so I share a taxi with some others to the top. At 34.2 metres tall and weighing 2200 tons the statue is impressive but I'm more taken by the view of Cochabamba surrounded by lush green hills. From the top I can even see smoke rising from the city centre riots.
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