We basically totally messed up La Paz, a city which others described as their favourite place in S. America. We flew in Wednesday night, and stayed in this extremely crappy hotel, which required a 5-10 minute walk up and down numerous flights of stairs at altitude to get from the entrance to your room. The next day (a thursday) we swapped hostel, booked "the worlds most dangerous bike ride", and had a look at the famous "witches' market"...

We´re writing this from the future as it were, as we haven´t really had time to update the journal up until now. So, we´ve finished our 4 day jeep tour of Southern Bolivia, taking in more lagoons than we´ve seen before in a lifetime, some hot springs, flamingos, villages both abandoned and not, and Salar de Uyuni (or the salt flats). We did the tour as a party of 6, with these 2 girls called Anna and Helen, post-grads from Oxford whom we m...