La Paz the highest city the world

La Paz, Bolivia

We have finally moved on after a last lovely few days in Sucre.
The carnival gathered momentum so that Tuesday was water throwing everywhere. Some of the bands continued playing the same tune and accompanying the soaked dancers until Tuesday evening then calm returned. The smell of urine in the streets Tuesday night was amazing then Wed all was clean and quiet again.

With the end of carnival the french restaurant La Taverna was open again and we went Wed with Laura and Howard, Thursday for a romantic dinner for two and Friday with Michael, Tatjana and Mica. Michael had his new fillings from the dentist and Tatjana had been cured by the potions from the which market.
We did some sight seeing the last couple of days and went to a school La Phillipe?It was a beautiful old building with courtyard and paintings and we climbed on the roof and into the bell tower for the best views.
We met Jim from Preston on the roof. He was possibly not in the best place as he had a couple of vertigo dizzy spells when he did a Jack Douglas.
Said goodbye to Renee, Benita and Margrite who had looked after us for 4 weeks at Casa Verde.
Flew to La Paz 40mins in a small Amazonias plane with a good view of the rocky land below. La Paz airport is in the middle of a big flat area with no sign of the city. Taxi drives for a few minutes then starts to descend into a big valley and there is La Paz clinging to the valley sides. Amazing view. About 500m below the airport is the heart of the city with lots of traffic, stalls at the roadside and ladies in Bowler hats. Our hostel for the first night was a bit damp and dismal and we have now moved into the Majestic Hotel. A good room with a view of Mt Illimani when it stops raining. 6400m and lots of snow. There is a thai, japanese and india restauarant on the ground floor. Something for everyone. We had a good lunch there but the chicken tikka masala was different to Accrington. We are also just around the corner from the witches market.

In looking for a new hostel we found some real dark dodgy looking places, the wild rover party hostel with beds? for 167 and what had been the home of the president in 1904.
Had lunch in a hotel restaurant from 1806 with tango music.$4.50 for 4 courses but it was freezing as the rain hammered down outside. I guess we should have tried Tango