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We arrived in La Paz tired after a 12 hour night bus which unfortunately was filled with French people and their vomit! We were extremely glad to arrive at a hostel and be given a room. We explored the city and the many night markets around the centre.
On sunday we went to see Cholita's wrestling, a new craze in Bolivia which is wrestling (wwe style) but with women in fancy dresses and men dressed up with masks etc. it was quite strange but entertaining, the locals were going crazy for it! Wooden sticks, chairs and a papaya fruit were used and at one point one of the female wrestlers was thrown into the crowd.
On monday we cycled Bolivias Death Road - the most dangerous road in the world due to sheer cliff drops with no barriers (featured in Top Gear!) We were the only two in the group which was nice as we could go at our own speed (snail pace) and were given a CD of pictures of just us two. We cycled through two small rivers and mostly the ground was extremely bumpy with fairly big rocks so we had to be careful around corners. Overall the scenery was spectacular and as long as you didnt get too confident cycling the danger of falling was minimal. Our guide was very confident however on the bus ride back he told us that he had had a fatality whilst taking a group on the road. We were both glad we found out after!
We also decided at the bottom of the death road to do a zip line! So we were driven back up the hill to zip line down. There were 3 lines of different heights and lengths. It was good fun and gave us really nice scenery to finish the day. We were then taken to a cute lodge to shower and eat, once again with the whole place to ourselves. For the route back to La Paz we drove back up the death road in the jeep which gave us a different perspective of it.
Our final day in La Paz was spent curing Kat's hangover in the morning followed by a trip around valle de la luna (valley of the moon) - a landscape just outside of La Paz with scenery such that you could imagine you are on the moon, with incredible rock formations which could resemble people animals or objects if you used your imagination. After a final look around the markets (which we discovered quite disturbing stuffed baby llamas which are used as blessings/ sacrifices to Pacha Mamma) we caught another 12 hour night bus to Uyuni ready to start the salt flats tour on the morning of the 15th.
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