After a breakfast of pancakes, which the Adventure Brew seems to have a limitless supply of, we headed out to explore the city, starting with San Francisco Square and the Church-come-Museum around which it was built. For $40 BOB ($8 AUD) we were given an hour long guided tour of the church in English, exploring not only the church itself, but the roofs, belfry, gardens and crypts as well. With this came a bit of a history lesson, too: The church was constructed in the 16th century, made from stone blocks quarried some 30km away and carried by hand to the church site. On every stone a symbol was carved by the man who carried it, a sort of lithographic graffiti giving the workers some sort of legacy. In the crypt below, we saw the ashes of the church founders, financiers, and heroes of the various wars and revolutions of Bolivia. Also in the crypt was a a large box of sand, given to Bolivia by Chile after Chile took Bolivia's access to the sea away in a gesture of goodwill.

Our guide was fantastic - he was using this job primarily to improve his English, not because he loved the Church (actually he was an atheist), but he also told us some facts not relating to the history lesson, but to Bolivians. Such as the fact that he eats 25 bananas a day. Regular size bananas, too.

Next we went for lunch/dinner at Namaste, a vegetarian restaurant in central La Paz. After a delicious soup and tofu croquettes - Lisa had the world's nuttiest pad thai - we went rolling though La Paz, finding the equivalent of the Vic Market before heading to La Paz's central park, where we unwittingly adopted a german shepherd we found wandering. Bolivia is full of stray dogs who wander freely through the streets and buildings. From central park we found a series of boardwalks over the city and wandered across them before heading to the bus terminal to catch yet another long bus to Uyuni and the Bolivian Salt Flats.