We took the Todos Turistico bus to La Paz which was said to be the safest yet most expensive and also the only bus in Bolivia with wifi (even though the wifi only kicked in at 3am). We arrived in La Paz at 8am and made our way to Pirwa Hostel where Rona's friend was staying. It was such a cool place, with a roof-hight outside terrace with amazing views of the city, incredible artwork and random artefacts everywhere.

It's here where Leanne and I braced our adventurous sides and ran down a buildinng then jumped face down a 17 storey building. Was awesome! So awesome I did it twice, second time with a 25m free fall.

It was Rona's friends birthday a few days from now, so we went to celebrate at a French Restaurant on the other side of the city. We had amazing food and as Rona's friend knew the barman from Huyana Potosi mountain trek, so we had drinks on the house too. So far the time in La Paz has been great.

Close to Coiroco is Bolivia's most dangerous road (Routa de la Muerta - Death Road). We started at 4700 meters up and rode an hour down a mountain pass paved road before we stopped for lunch and went onto the official dirt Death Road. It was scary at part on a mountain bike, so can just imagine that it was be terrifying by bus. After the 32km down hill extreme biking we had buffet dinner at a hotel surrounded by grand mountains, coconut trees and had a great pool, all a recipe for winding down after a full-on day.

Huyana Patosi, Bolivia's 6th highest mountain at 6088m was the next challenge. We started at 4700 base camp and walked 2 hours to 5100 high camp where we spent the night on mattresses in a cabin along with 17 other people. After dinner we attempted to go to bed, but sleep alluded me as I was worried about the next day. Earlier on the way up there were parts where I could not see the guides and made be a bit nervous how much care they would be taking going up.

At midnight we were woken up and given brekkie. I had my own guide and the girls had one for the two of them. The crampons, harness, ice axe and rope was put on over the layers of waterproofs and jackets, it was cold! All geared up and tied by rope to my guide we left at a relatively slow pace. It was when we got to the ice wall that the weather started to pick up with gail force winds which caused snow particles to fly everywhere feeling like darts on the face. I started climbing the wall when my guide prompted me to go faster, there were rather large snow particles flying and falling on my head. When I got to the top a bit freaked out, I had lost my head lamp and my guide could not speak English well enough to explain what had just happened. Still in the snow storm when we got to 5800m he strongly urged me to go back due to the weather conditions. We turned around and braced the weather on the way back as well Closer down we saw the remnants of what was an avalanche and proceeded further to see the sun rise. We finally arrived back at the high camp at 8am. It was quite the adventure. Apparently the weather conditions we encountered were totally unusual, but probably would not have wanted to exchange the experience even though was a tad hard core. Once back at high camp we had to tackle the icy conditions down to the base camp, where we got our landrover back to La Paz. What a crazy time and at this point pretty glad to be alive.

Walking tour of La Paz was pretty impressive, it started off at the San Pedro prison, which is the only prison in the world where families can live in and the inmates need to rent their cells. We walked through the town and saw the cathedral, witches market and different fruit/veg markets. Most of the city is divided up into streets according to the type of goods being sold, thus one would find an entire street with just paint or kitchen utensils etc. Was a great tour that I'd recommend. I thoroughly enoyed La Paz, but was time to catch another collectivo taxi to Bolivia's Cocacabanna.