29/6/04- 1/7/04 La Paz, Bolivia

After 4 nights on the road I have never been so pleased to have a nice hot shower.

La Paz is an interesting city, it is bloody high up so it is hard to go anywhere and still have the energy to do the thing that you intended doing at the beginning of the journey. So we didn't do a great deal. We did find the contemporary art museum which was one of the best in South America and the witches market with their dried Llama foetus´ for only 10 bolivanos (about 75p) bargain way to get bad spirits and guests from your house. We also found the Coca museum with its strange change of empathsis part way through so now I don't know if coca is good for me or not.

One thing you can do in La Paz is go down the most dangerous road in the world on a mountain bike- you get a lift up to the top of the hill first. People we have met have seen buses go over the edge of it and apparently it is a single track road up the side of a mountain with two way traffic, hence the fatalities. Obviously this is not helped by tourists hurtling down the road uncontrollably on bikes but at least this maintains its reputation and keeps it as a tourist attraction.