3 - 6 March
Wednesday, 28 March 2007
The Highest Capital City in the World
La Paz
3 - 6 March
We gave the the thumbs up to a cheaper hostel after checking our the rooms (all in the name of the "Galapagos Fund"), however this was immediately vetoed by Ron and Maarten who turned up their noses at our choice. They demanded an immediate relocation and we were forced to trapse across La Paz with our backpacks to an establishment more to their liking. Hotel Fuentes, was situated on the well known Witches Market known for its selling of magical potions, herbs, dried out frogs and llama fetuses which are supposed to ward off evil spirits.
We were really impressed, but also felt a bit targeted as tourists when 3 police women followed us to our hotel and kindly warned us of pick pockets and evil con men pretending to be policemen who would demand to see ID/passport and money, and rob us of these items. Fortunately we had none of these encounters.
That evening we visited the Ozone Oxygen Bar, where you sit wearing an O2 facemask delivering high volumes of flavoured oxygen, supposedly to replenish your oxygen deprived body suffering from the high altitude. They claim its a "natural high", we think its a load of bullshit.
3 - 6 March
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