South America ’23

Here the planes don't need to descend when landing. They just fly and then put their landing gear down and you're in El Alto. The city that, on a map, appears to be the same place as La Paz, but they are two seperate cities and also separated by 1000m of elevation.

So how else do we get down there.. Cable Car. Any oxygen left in our breath was taken away when the car is flung of the edge of the cliff.

This city is madness, in all aspects. The height, the location, the size, the driving, the houses. Just everything is chaos and madness. Alex ofcourse loves it.

Houses and buildings in various states of completion, due to tax loop hole, cover the valley and all the way up the sides of the mountains as far as the eye can see.

After the cable car ride we went to a place called Moon Valley. Not necessarily because it looks like the moon, but because Neil Armstrong visited here when he was coming to play some golf and said it looks a bit like the moon. The strange shapes and formation of the rocks is definitely interesting though.

Next we went up to a lookout over the city called Mirador Killi Killi which just showed off how vast this city is. Reminder that there is another city literally above us at the same time.

Last part was the Plaza Murillo which had the Government Palace with their guards out the front and the Legislative Plaza that has a clock that goes in the opposite direction. Apparently because we're in the southern hemisphere the clocks should go in reverse. That sounds like something someone from the northern hemisphere would come up with.

In the Plaza there was a surprise romantic display that started with some loud fire crackers shooting into the air. A guy dancing and holding a bunch of flowers kneels down and gives it to another guy. But then in a surprise twist, the guy being performed to kisses the girl that was recording the whole thing. Then some more for crackers were set off before the police came over to shut it down.Read more