We arrived in La Paz (the world´s highest capital city) at around 9am and headed straight to the taxi rank. We headed towards one hostel, but it didn´t appear to be open, so we set off for another across town. When we got there it was fully booked, but luckily there was another place just around the corner. It was quite quiet, but the building was the former presidential residence at the turn of the 20th century, and had a nice courtyard in the centre.

Once we had checked in Amy took a nap, then in the early afternoon we went for a walk around the centre of town. Whilst in the centre, we spotted a cinema, so we bought tickets for 2012 later that evening, then spent the afternoon on the internet looking for jobs and reading in our room. When we went to the cinema later in the evening we couldn´t believe how busy it was. There must have been nearly 500 seats in the place, and pretty much every one was filled. The film was ok, even though they had a 10 minute intermission during one of the main scenes.

The next day we woke up relatively early, but decided to have a lazy day around the hostel/internet cafe. We rang Joe and Roxana, who we had met in Uyuni, and arranged to meet them for a meal later in the evening, then we went for some sorely missed British food for lunch in the Irish hostel across from ours. At about quarter to seven in the evening we left the hostel to go and meet Joe and Roxana. We had arranged to meet them at seven, but the flat took longer to find than we anticipated, and we ended up around half an hour late. Their flat was on the top floor in the upmarket Sopocachi area, and provided amazing 360° views of the city. We stayed in the flat for a while drinking wine, before heading to a nearby restaurant. We had a really good time, and headed back to the hostel without having spent too much. The next morning we decided to head to the bus station to book tickets to Cuzco for the next day. On the way we had to walk through the main square and past the presidential residence. There were a lot of people outside, and quite a big police and press presence. Unfortunately I didn´t have my camera on me at the time. We stuck around for a little bit, then carried on walking. Shortly after leaving the square a huge motorcade of around 50 vehicles came past, a couple of which had South Korean flags on, but most had the Iranian flag. We later found out that the Iranian Prime Minister was in town, so he probably went past in one of the cars. Once we had booked our tickets we headed back to the hostel and arranged to meet Joe and Roxana again in the evening. The night ran much the same as the one before, with a bottle of wine in the flat, before heading off to a restaurant - This time one that did good steaks. After the meal we went out for a few drinks in a local bar. We would have liked to have stayed out longer, but our bus was going early the next morning. We said our goodbyes, then went back for an early night, beforte leaving to Peru the next day.