La Paz Day 3

Today we head to Rurrenbaque in the late afternoon, so we only had part of the day to spend in La Paz.

After we checked out, we walked back to the prison so I could show Allan. After telling him about it last night, we decided it was worth a quick visit. It was also conveniently nearby the purple line for us to get the cable car up to El Alto.

To get to El Alto we took the purple line to the platinum line to the blue line and rode it all the way to the end. Along the way we kept our eye out for the Mamani Neo-Andean architecture that the guidebook and several online sites mentioned. When we tried to Google or read where to go, it just mentioned El Alto as a whole and nowhere specific. We took some pictures and enjoyed the views while we rode the cable car, but we couldn't see any main area with the architecture, just random buildings in and around the city. El Alto is not small, so we didn't want to wander aimlessly looking for the buildings (we also didn't have the time). We settled for the buildings we could see with our birds eye view, and headed back in the cable car.

We took a different route back. We took the blue line to the red line. Instead of going back to the central station, we got off at the cemetery. It was pretty big and well kept. With All Soul's Day being a few days ago, there were lots of fresh flowers at all the graves (are they still called graves if it's where cremated ashes are...?). We walked around and saw some of the bigger graves/mausoleums for famous Bolivians before finishing our walk to the hostel. We even got a small ice cream along the way. I got chicle (bubble gum) and Allan got chirimoya (a sweet fruit).

Once back at the hostel we popped into a cafe for some takeaway sandwiches for dinner before getting an Uber to the bus station. This one is much farther away from the hostel than the station we arrived at. We made the bus with plenty of time. There's no AC on this bus, but the windows can open so hopefully it will be a comfortable ride as we are on it for 14 hours.Läs mer