La Paz

📍 La Paz, Bolivia

Lots of travellers skip La Paz as it's got a dangerous reputation, and Ads did require a bit of convincing, but we settled for a two night stay here. Total culture shock at first - it's brimming with people wearing incredible traditional outfits, the traffic is literally out of control, and you could quickly see on the streets that Bolivia is South America's second poorest country - but it really grew on us and by the end we really liked the colourful chaos and we felt safe.

It's hard to show the immense scale of La Paz. It just seems to stretch on forever, pushing itself into the mountain slopes. We used the cable cars like a fairground ride to explore whilst the locals were commuting to and from work (work, what's work🙃?!) We also managed to squeeze in a walking tour, a museum of folkore visit and a walk through the witches market where it was in fact, not cuddly toy stuffed baby llamas, but real-life dead baby llamas used as offerings to Pachamama (the Inca goddess of mother earth). Fascinating and horrifying.Læs mere