Waking up at 7am - had some breakfast and then headed to the shops for a coffee and for Tom to do some shopping. After this we jumped on our private bus to tikwandu. Tikwandu is a museum with icons that dates back to pre inca time. We saw some monuments and pyramid like buildings. It was pretty cool to see as they were so old. On the way back we got off the bus at the top of the red line and got the cable car back down to La Paz city. After this we headed out t...

Another early start today but it's for a good reason, para gliding. I had a small amount of toast and the we walked a couple of km to the meeting point where we met Diego. We then signed the weaver and jumped in the 4WD with Miguel, their dog and we picked up he driver. We drove about an hour out of town and up the mountain. The scenery on the drive is amazing, with a huge amount of snow from the night before. Once up the top it was time to get the harness on an...

Day 2 in La Paz, I woke up feeling s*** this morning with a headache ?altitude sickness ?dehydration. Maybe I should mention the hotel room has no window so it gets really stuffy overnight. Today we went and had breakfast, not much of a spread compared to everywhere else, only toast and some banana. After this we got the hotel to help organise a taxi to moon valley. Moon valley is 30mins out of La Paz and is a collection of craters and strange shapes in the roc...

Arriving to La Paz at 3.00am after no sleep wasn't the best thing. Going through immigration and customs was easy enough and finding an ATM was okay. Then came the nerve racking part - getting a taxi. We asked an airline worker who said to get one of the radio taxis with airport on it. So we jumped in and started driving down dark streets, rails on windows and speed humps everywhere. I thought we were going to get mugged or kidnapped. After 5 minutes we could see...