This city looked a lot like Cairo. Every single house is built with the same plan out of the same clay bricks, no paint, no trimmings, no roofs - just the same double story brown block houses built on top each other for as far as the eye can see...which is quite far as the city is built in a mini canyon, each side of the city was super steep but the houses just kept on piling up.

On day 2 we PAID to ride down 'death road' on bicycles. The road just outside of La Paz drops from an altitude of 4700m to 1200m in 64 Kms of steep, windy downhill! It's a dirt track which varies between a 1 lane and 1.5 lane road (there are both directions of traffic driving along this road!!) with waterfalls flowing down onto the road washing away what's left of the unstable gravel. The temperature must have been only a couple of degrees when we started in the clouds making it difficult to see more than a few meters in front of you, but the temperature and view just got better and better as we free wheeled down and down. I think the most fun was building up enough speed to swoosh under the waterfalls or maybe just starring out over the jungle terrain together with the whole biking team on the sharpest corner with a sheer cliff edge just inches away from your feet. (I had tingles in my toes when looking over the edge - much worse than the bus ride over the Andes) no! The most fun was shouting out 'aaaaaaaaahhhh' over the bumpy gravel. Jeremy Clarkson's stint up death road in one of the Top Gear programs was totally tame in comparison - he and his team should have free wheeled the 4x4's DOWN (not up) death road with a time limit to add a bit of real excitement! (our total bike ride down was 3 hours on dirt track).

So after we got the T- shirt I guess it was time to move on! So to Copacabana we go - the edge of lake Titicaca.