La Paz

We arrived in La Paz at about dinner time, and starving after having eaten barely anything all day. As we came over the top of the valley in the bus and began to wind down to the valley bottom, the view of the city sprawling down the steep hills, with the snow-covered mountains in the background did take our breath away. And not just the view, as it was pretty difficult to breathe due to the altitude.

After checking into our hostel, which was amazing with a huge mural painted in our room, we went out and I managed to persuade Rich that we should go for a proper curry. Amazingly there is a brilliant British-owed curry house called the Star of India, at which we ate huge amounts.

We spent the next few days wandering around La Paz (slowly becuase of the altitude), doing some shopping, visiting museums and watching some Bolivian version of ´Trooping the colour´. We tried Bolivian Salteñas (a kind of pasty) whilst watching this for maximum Bolivian-ness, but weren´t prepared for all the juice which splurted out and all over us. Oh dear.