My Journey Round The World

La Paz… Incredible city!!! Highest administrative capital of the world – or use to be as on the Constitution, Sucre is the one, which a Bolivian confirmed on the Minibus to La Paz - built between 3200 and 4000 metres in a huge canyon. Really impressive to see all this urbanisation surrounded by snowcap mountains… This is the only city on earth where you have to go up in order to find the slum! 2 350 000 people including El Alto – the slum area which dominate the city. As all big city, it’s really noisy and quite dirty as well but it’s still interesting to see how people are living in such a high city! Still have tiny streets where bus drives! Really nice markets where you can eat for nothing, fresh fruits juice on nearly every corner… Little shops on the street where you can find anything & everything from toilet paper to shampoo, underwear to pyjamas, batteries to lock… Thousand of people walking day and night in the city… Impressive!

I arrived there with Perrine & Sylvain under heavy rain! First thing we did was to catch a taxi as soon as possible to reach one of the hostel we found on our guide book and ended up in The Adventure Brew Hostel – www.theadventurebrewhostel.com - including a microbrewery and a lovely terrace surrounding one part of the city.

In the afternoon, we went to visit the Coca Museum – www.cocamuseum.com – where we spent more than 2 hours, learning about the benefits of this little leaf (I’m sure we learned more than on Wikipedia… Perrine will understand!). In the evening, we went to a traditional Peña where we could see traditional dances and ear traditional music while having diner – not the best of the trip! On the next day, we walked around the city and especialy Mercado de las Brujas, where we met Julie & Thibault (with whom we had this nice picnic in Copacabana) for lunch.