Jakey Jake

I was eager to get to Bolivia the next day. This journey was by bus from Puno to La Paz , and we managed to get a flat. A lot of the people decided to walk, but me being the lazy person I am decided to sit in the sun and wait, good move on my part as we arrived about 10 minutes before the others got to the boat crossing. We arrived in La Paz at about 6pm, a good 2 hours behind schedule, from the mountain looking down onto the valley where the city was located was fairly spectacular. We checked into a relatively nice hotel, and the first thing on telly was secret life of us, slight pangs of homesickness were quickly offset by the first beer. The following day we went for a walk around, did a few sightseeing things and went to the san pedro prison, made famous by a Melbourne uni law undergrad who spent some time in there living with a family. He never committed any crimes but was intrigued by the way the prison was run. Inmates would have to buy or rent their cells, often having their entire families coming to live in the cell with them. The tour was led by a sweedish guy named jonas who was in for trying to smuggle out a kilo of coke, a deal went down between two guys who were standing on the roof. One threw a bag of coke that was almost a big fist in size, and we were informed that we could buy a kilo for 100usd and it would be here in half an hour. Wasn’t really feeling like making a drug deal inside prison Another highlight of La Paz was the witches market in which things like llama fetuses, snake skins, dead frogs etc. Were up for grabs, going at very cheap rates too, you just needed to buy a spell book which was also for sale. La Paz for me was relatively dull.