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Posted by rob laurie | 13th December 2008
After been dumped in the middle of a busy highway we managed to navigate our way to our hostel. A place raved about by all the books and blogs - we still cant find out what all the fuzz is about. Besides the hostel and the worst polution we have encountered thus far, La Paz is a great place.
Its basically a massive city that is in a huge valley and the buildings just keep going up and up the sides of the mountains, I couldnt get a picture that did it justice. We wandered through the witches market and after exploring the colonial and old town sections of town it was time to book the bike ride. To be honest it was the only reason I really wanted to come here and Laima kinda got dragged along.

The most dangerous road in the world is here (more people die here than on any other road in the world) and the great part is that we get to mountain bike down it :-). They build a new road about 18 months ago - so there is s
Continued | Around the world in 180 days
24 Aug 2008 - 28 Feb 2009
Visiting: United Kingdom, USA, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, USA, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Swaziland, South Africa and United Kingdom.
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