La Paz, Bolivia

Although Bolivia has a few capitals, La Paz is said to be the highest in the world.
The city is bustling with markets, people and cars. It’s hard to walk around as there are so many hills and the altitude makes it even more tiring.

On our first day in La Paz, we explored the city. The first place we visited was the witches market, which is a creepy street market which sold goods for witchcraft, including gross alpaca foetuses used for sacrifices. In the evening, we went to watch the Cholitas wrestling. This was women dressed in traditional clothes ‘wrestling’ each other. Although it was fake, it was still entertaining and fun to watch. At the show, we met a Swedish couple, so instead of catching the bus back to the city, the four of us caught the cable car. It was beautiful to see the city at night, but the cable car was SO high and scaled one of the cliffs in the city. When we got back to La Paz, we went for dinner at a local wine bar.

On our final day in La Paz (after a day of being sick), we caught an overnight bus to Uyuni for our salt flat excursions.Read more