It´s
difficult to point out exactly what La Paz did to give us a rather dodgy
impression. Bolivia’s capital came on to us as polluted, noisy and a bit scary.
The Bolivians we´d met before coming to La Paz had been very friendly, but as
we came into downtown the smiles and hospitality suddenly disappeared.
Our dirty little
hostel was located in the "Witches Market". The streets that make up this
market are one of the main tourist attractions in the city. It´s filled with
small shops that sell dried llama fetuses and other strange things that are
used in different rituals. Women are dressed in traditional dresses and bowler
hats - and they were not very happy with a pale tourist lurking around with a
big camera.
The smell
of cocoa leaves, dried llama babies and incense made us wanting to get out of
the city. And as La Paz can offer crazy downhill biking down ”death road”, we
had no other choice than getting our asses on some bikes. ”Death road” is a old dirt road between La Paz and town called Coroico. It is 62 km long, and drops from
4800 m.a.s.l to around 1000 m.a.s.l. In other words, some adrenalin filled
hours down hill! All in all, La Paz turned out to be a good place to arrange
some action filled adventures, but not a city we would like to hang out for
longer than needed.
- LA PAZ -
Witches market
Finally a happy old lady in her micro shop.
The strangest and scariest mannequins, I still don´t get it.
- LA PAZ TO COROICO ON "DEATH ROAD"-
Starting off on a paved highway
Heading into waterfalls and bumpy dirt roads
We survived without any bruises or broken bones, and spent the night in tropical Coroico with the view over the valley of the Yungas. Starting the day at high altitude with snow, and ending up by a swimming pool in the valley was fantastic!
Waking up to this @ Esmeralda Hotel
Happy biker
Hammock time!
“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.”
KLEM
AK
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