The picture accompanying this entry is of a road safety zebra. These chaps were all over the city helping locals get from one pavement to the other intact. Love it. So we had another day to kill in La Paz. Having done all the main attractions (there aren't many!), we were a little stuck. After spending the morning bickering we decided on the old fall back plan of the cinema. We caught a cab out to "Mega Center", a huge entertainment complex to the south of the c...

The need for speed satisfied, Wednesday was time to take in a bit of culture - the museums were open. Or so we thought. Top of our list was a museum giving, amongst other things, a history of La Paz including photographs of its colonial prime. Except it is shut for renovations. Another set of four museums saw two of these closed for renovations, and the other two were pretty poor. Hoards of school children running around with activity books never helps. Lunch ...

(Writing this whilst stuck in Potosi bus station for a couple of hours as we didn't read the bus timetable properly - or rather at all) A flick through the guide on La Paz revealed that pretty much everything of interest is closed on a Monday. I guess we could have predicted that. Therefore Monday was spent wandering around and taking in the general ambiance of the city centre. First impressions were good. It doesn't have the intact colonial centre of so many ot...

And so adios Peru, hola Bolivia. The picture attached to this entry is me walking over the border. A day of travel. The first bus, from Puno to Copacabana on the Bolivian shores of Lake Titicaca was very comfortable. You have to get off the bus at the border and go through border control on both sides on foot. A little time consuming but painless. A practical note for any that need it - you could easily pass through avoiding both controls. Dunno, might come in u...