After the bus ride from hell, 8 hours in tiny cramped seats with a drunk guy playing Eminem songs all night, we arrived in La Paz - the highest capital city in the world! On our first day we went for a walk to the witches market and bought up on Llama jumpers, jewellery and presents for our family. We thought about buying a dried llama fetus or some hallucinogenic cactus, but we refrained as I am sure Australian customs would not be impressed (although Rash assured me that the San Pedro cactus would have been consumed long before our flight home) The next day, after a massive night out and a lazy morning recovering in bed, we signed up for a one day mountain biking tour of death road...the most dangerous road in the world!
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