La Paz Day 35 We arrived in La Paz, the highest capital city in the world (4000mts) just after 7am after having taken another overnight bus journey, this time on a far better bus, windows and seats were all intact. We checked into our hotel (Hotel Condeza) with the help of a friendly taxi driver and headed out into the streets to explore our latest temporary home. Immediately we stepped into the tourist zone. Packed with shops selling the local handicrafts, beautiful bright coloured textiles, blankets, pan pipes, small Pachamama (Mother Earth) effigies etc. Our first stop was to a Museum, the Coca Museum. As the title suggests this was dedicated to telling the history of the Coca leaf, from it´s mythical orgins and uses by the Andean people (as far back as 2000 B.C) to
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