Back in La Paz after a week of adventure. Last time I wrote I was in Potosi where we stayed for New Year. January 2nd, when the bussses started running again we took the bus south west to Uyuni where we booked a three day tour of the Uyuni salt flats for the next day. However the next day it turned out that due to the hollidays the city had run out of gasoline so we had to postpone the trip for a day. To spend the extra day we went to see another mining town loc...

La Paz, capital of Bolivia and I belive the highest capital of the world at 3600m. That is where I have arrived now. This afternoon I have walked arund the small centre and explored the narrow streets which climb steeply up the sides of the small valley which hold the city. On the way here from Cusco I made astop at Cocacabana a small town on the banks of lake Titicaca. The famous beach in Rio de Janeiro is actually named after this town because it houses a famou...