When you first drive into La Paz from the high roads looking down, it is an amazing site. This huge city is built at 4,000m above sea level on the side of a canyon and descends to 2,800m above sea level. What on earth were they thinking? The bus stops right outside our hotel (Rosario) which is at the high end of the city, near the witches market. Just leaving the hotel is an experience. Homeless people, rubbish, street sellers and dodgy looking shops all crowd the streets. A distinct lack of refridgeration and sanitation makes for a funky smell in the air! The city tour was hardly the most exciting tour in the world, in fact it felt a little like the Kramer reality tour, just our guide making up places to go. We started
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