La Paz

La Paz is a massive city and arriving in it can be daunting, however once me and Allegra arrived, ate and had a black coffee at the market place, we did manage to navigate our way across it to meet our two friends where we found them sat in a hot tub in their (much nicer than our) hostel. And this is where we learned that the amazing DJ Tiesto was playing in town that night. Very excited we ran to the reception to get tickets... only to find out they´d all been sold, leaving us no choice but to jump in a taxi and run to the gig to get tickets from a tout, which we did with sucess. The guys we bought the tickets from ended up being really fun, we queued with them, they bought us drinks and we all danced together during the concert. The concert itself was incredible! It was jam packed and Tiesto played just about every great song that I know, we had such a fun evening.

The next morning (or should I say afternoon as that is when I lazily woke up) I went to the market for a delicious fruit salad topped with honey, yoghurt and popcorn. Then me and my friends spent the day wandering around the witches market where they sell all sorts of things from alpaka jumpers to incense sticks, lucky charms, guitars and bongo drums. We even found a coco museam there, describing the impotance of the coco leaf in Bolivia's culture. That night we went to a bar that played a mixture of latin american and american chart music, followed by a much less local feeling bar which we didn´t leave till 6am.

Next day we explored the city by visiting various plazas and going to the mirador where there´s a fabulous view of La Paz. We then came across a little christmas market, which sold christmas decorations, cards, gifts, toffee apples and chocolate. We had another market meal for dinner (I love this as it´s so bussely and has such a local feel) then went out to an urban music bar with funky murals over the walls and live music- a really cool afro-bolivian band played as well people rapping.

On our last day in La Paz (as for the moment) me and my friend got our fortunes read by a witch doctor who uses coco leaves and looks at the way they fall on his cloth. Apparently I´m going to be lucky in love and work... but won´t reaturn to South America...we´ll see.