LA PAZ

We´ve been in the worlds highest capital city (3660m) for about a week now. It´s an amazing city, nestled in the mountains, well its kindof oversprawling up the mountains as well... It´s quite sunny here being quite high up, but at night it´s freeezing and I can feel my tan gradually fading away as we move into winter :(

The famous ´Witches Market´ is basically a few shops down a street selling dried llama babies, old sheep fingernails, dried flowers, cactus' and weeds... but we've managed to buy some more goodies- bags, purses, rings, cocoa leaves etc.

We mountainbiked down the ´Worlds Most Dangerous Road' which was lots of fun. Only two people fell off their bikes, one due to a broken chain, and one due to a collision round a corner. So no-one died. At the top it was so cold, even with our super cool biking gear on, and at one point when we were in the middle of a cloud, our sunglasses got so steamed up we couldn´t see a thing... But at the bottom when we emerged from the fog, it was so beautiful and hot. Though we did get very wet riding through streams and waterfalls and the beer at the bottom was well deserved. (and I used to think the Camel Trail in Cornwall was hard!!)

We´re going to the Amazon tomorrow. Enduring a 24hr bus ride there thats meant to be like Death Road, just a bit wider... It was a 80Bs bus ride there versus a 500Bs flight so we went for the budget option. Don´t know how much I´ll regret it later, but Tilly is adament about taking the bus... So in the jungle we can swim with pink dolphins, ride on canoes down the river, see anacondas on night treks etc. But more of that to come!

Missing you all so much! Can't believe it's been 2 months since we last saw you all! xxxxxxxxxx