¡Hola! La Paz (3640m) is a damn cool place.The city centre is at the bottom of a steep valley, with all the surrounding districts climbing steeply up the sides and out on to the plateau above.The streets are chaotic and the buildings are held together with bits of tape and elastic bands, more reminiscent of parts of Delhi than of anywhere else we've been in Latin America.The city centre is just one sprawling market place, and it's easily the best place to buy...

¡Hola! As Eddy once said: 'Taxi - the Copacabana'; although I'm pretty sure he was talking about that beach in Rio de Janeiro and not this dusty old tourist trap just inside the Bolivian border.We developed a kind of love-hate relationship with Copacabana.At first it was an annoying place - we arrived without a cent in Bolivian money and, despite being a border town, Copacabana didn't have an ATM (apart from one that didn't accept either Visa or Mastercard!...