La Paz

Weather: Estaba soleado

Llama Count: A disturbing amount of llama foetuses at the witches market. They are meant to bring good luck if you buy one and put it by your door. I think they probably just stop anyone from visiting your house. Maybe hermits have good luck.

Most Bolivians are kamikaze drivers. However, La Paz drivers are so keen to end their own lives, and preferably a good twenty pedestrians near them,  that the government has had to intervene. There solution is innovative if a bit comical.

These are the La Paz traffic police:

 

The Zebra police. These zebras dance in front of the traffic to allow a brief respite for pedestrians to run across roads, as fast as their bowler hats will let them. They are surprisingly effective.

To be honest I only saw them briefly, most of today was spent in bed, happily asleep.

The English travelling community is very small in Bolivia. I walked into the dorm to be greeted by two Middlesbrough boys I met in Uyuni. They make up 50% of the total British people I have met so far out here. The hostel is in the faded grandeur of an old Viennese hotel, which is rather beautiful. However, I don´t have that much time left so I have booked a flight out to the amazon town of Rurrenbaque for tomorrow afternoon.