While on the small minibus from La Paz To Copacabana, I started to read about a common scam involving thoise very minibuses, where they would drive off, leaving you on the side of the road. I started to get concerned when they told everyone to get off while the minibus was ferried across a river, even more so as a fat Bolivian woman next to me was shouting at me to get off, while she stayed lodged to her seat. All turned out fine and I arrived in Copacabana, a qu...

After surviving the World´s most dangerous road unscathed, I decided to visit one of La Paz´s more alternative tourist destinations; San Pedro prison. What makes this prison different is that although the prisoners are locked in, they run the workings of the prison and pay rent for their cells (more like rooms as they seem quite comfortable and prisoners can come and go as they please). One prisoner, who apparently made a lot of money inside by giving l...

It´s been odd returning to La Paz after almost two months; what was originally new and spectacular is now very familiar. The one part of La Paz that I have been newly aquainted with is it´s nightlife. For some idiotic reason, it is the law for clubs in La Paz to close at 4, even on weekends. Lucky then that we were told about the after hours club (which is essentially just a converted basement) where we stayed until the early morning in the company of o...

One day was enough time to spend in Cochabamba. It's one of the biggest cities in Bolivia but as a visitor, there's not much to do. It's claim to fame is having the biggest Christ statue in South America, a tiny bit taller than the one in Rio. Having an unusual religious instinct (it was Good Friday), I decided to climb up the numerous stairs up to the top of the hill. All the Bolivians walking down the hill clearly realised how insane it was to walk up when ther...

Potosi, the highest city in the world at over 4000m, is a welcome reminder to Bolivia with it´s busy markets and street food. As it´s a very old city (it was once the largest in the whole of South America), the streets are narrow and are bustling with people throughout the day and much of the night. Potosi is most famous for it´s mines, which brought much wealth to the Spanish empire and are the reason for Potosi formally being so large. The mines...