The bus from La Paz wasn't too bad, the only thing wrong was that it left at 10.30pm and arrived at 5.30am (get a clue!)..Check in wasn't until 1pm so we had to sleep on the sofa, luckily they had free beer and unlimited pancakes for breakfast.La Paz is situated in the crevice of mountains and the drive into the Centre is meant to be amazing unfortunately we were asleep and it was dark. Its totally amazing there are just thousands of houses up the side of the mountains, your totally surrounded by them. The richer you are here the lower you live, although that means the poorer have fantastic view they still have the altitude of 3,675mtrs to deal with. Its such altitude everything leaves you breathless, walking up stairs, even walking and talking can be an effort! But apparently you get used to it, seen as we were stuck there for 2 weeks, this point is proved as Bull! The hustle and bustle of the markets are brilliant and you can buy anything you want here, and what makes this so good is that its so darn cheap. With PeRob making a surprise appearance and George and Hannah in toe we made up the famous five for the week. We took a city tour which took us to some of the richest and poorest part of La Paz and also to a lookout where what can only be described as Bolivian Pop Idol was being filmed. We found an English pub where you can get a variety of English dishes including a Sunday roast and a full breaky.We also took a tour of the Coca museum which gave was an insight to how cocaine is made from coca leaves, a process using diesel, fire, stomping and lots of cutting up, all very interesting if you wanted to make a career out of making and selling the stuff. The coca leaf releases energy, stops you from feeling hungry and reduces the symptoms of altitude sickness, the only thing though you see locals with gobs full of green gunk and only 3 teeth in their heads, not the best advert, Id rather have the altitude sickness (We have used the laves though, pretty gross).You see indigenous people everywhere, with the women looking like they have just stepped out of Victorian times with their long layered skirts and top hats. Apparently the fashion started when a Cockney Geezer went over with a load of hats to sell, he told the women that this was the height of fashion in Europe with the wealthy, they snapped his hand off and the tradition still stands today, they even have 'holiday hats'.