Festival de la Virgen de la Candelaria After a not very amazing nights sleep due to the incredible shape of the mattress that kept rolling us both to the centre, we got up and checked our emails to find that we had a reply from the Berlin Salsa Congress and needed to arrange payment to them to secure the tickets. This was easier said than done and after spending the whole morning on the phone (skype) to the bank and my Dad we eventually got it paid but still h...

Copacabana again After our earlyish night we had expected to get up at an early hour, however the bed was so comfy and I guess we were pretty tired from all the climbing and walking yesterday so we didn't emerge until about 9.30. By the time we had dressed and packed our bags it was 10 and we started walking down the long set of rough steps again to the lake shore to get a boat back to Copa which a man passing us said would leave at 10.30. This gave us just en...

Isla Del Sol We got up at 7 today so we could catch the boat to Isla del Sol. Walking up to the tourist office at 8 as we had been told we found it was closed!! Slightly annoyed by this we walked down toward the shore anyway and were lucky enough to find another office open selling the same tours although the guy behind the desk attempted to charge us more at first! We also picked up a couple of sandwiches and pastries from a little stand on the street and pro...

To Copacabana. After breakfast we went out to get some money and for a last look round La Paz before heading off to Copacabana that afternoon. Whilst wandering around we found a stall where Andy managed to buy himself a new hoody at a reasonable price and we also got some empanadas for the journey later on. Back at the hostel we paid up and packed our bags​ which Andy found particularly diffcult with all his new things (hoody, 2 tops, shoes and ipod) compare...

Clothes Shopping. We got up for breakfast as usual and after Mae had chatted to Matt for an hour we went out with the plan to find Mae a salsa dress. We walked back to dress street, passing sports street, lighting street (with all the light on the market stalls turned on!!) and Hardware street along the way. Mae went back to a few of the shops which she had been in before and this time we discovered that if you ask them for what you want they also have stacks ...