Sightseeing We woke up surprisingly early considering we didnt go to sleep until after 3 and after having breakfast and doing the usual internet stuff we left the hostal intending to walk to the far end of the central part of the city (before you cross the bridge to the south part) and take pictures of stuff we'd seen now it was daylight. The sun was shining and it was a lovely clear day which meant that we could see the mountains in the distance which up unti...

Exploring La Paz It was about 11 when we left the hostel to do some exploring of the town, we walked into the centre for a look round the witches market, this is a couple of streets in town where you can buy lots of strange herbs, voodoo dolls, talismans and even a dried llama foetus! (which apparently brings good luck if buried under your porch) After this we looked around a few clothes shops for a hoody for myself and a skirt/dress for Mae but unfortunately ...

Megacentre & British Indian We woke up early as there is no curtain at the window so the light fell straight on us as well as the fact that other people in the dorm were moving about getting dressed etc. By 9.30 we were eating breakfast which is included in the price of our room but consisted solely of tea, coffee, bread and jam...of course we made sure we had plenty to get our moneys worth! After doing a few bits on the internet we got some info from the ...

La Paz We were up and about by 8am today as we made our way to the bus terminal. Arriving at the bus station around 9 we immediately set about finding a suitable bus. Eventually armed with tickets on the 9:30 bus we just had time to buy a couple of cheese empanadas for breakfast and some strange coconut, honey pastry things (which are very hard to eat!!!) before getting on the bus. It was a fairly uneventful journey through quite uninspiring scenery, until we ...

Orouro After spending nearly an hour to get the bus load of us through customs we had a further 4 hours travelling before finally reaching Orouro at about 1.30. During the journey we watched the landscape change from snowy mountains in the distance and rocky terrain at the side of the bumpy road with Llamas running free (some with coloured ribbons tied to them) to rolling hills of scrubby grasses with the occasional stone wall and cattle wandering about. We pa...