La Paz and St Patricks Day

La Paz (Full name : Nuestra Señora de La Paz) is the administrative capital of Bolivia, as well as the departmental capital of La Paz Department. As of the 2001 census, the city of La Paz had a population of 789,585^[2], and together with the neighboring cities of El Alto and Viacha, make the biggest urban area of Bolivia, with a population of over 1.6 million inhabitants (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica). Located at an altitude of 3,660 metres (12,008 ft), it is the world's highest capital city.

As La Paz is the capital of Bolivia it is deffinately the most civilised. We booked into a reccomended hostel in the Lonely Planet Guide called Adventure Brew. The name created from its local brewery and adventure trails. We managed to book a double room the first night but had to move to a 12 and 8 bed dorm each night therefater. This breaking my maximum 6 bed room acceptability. Each night on the roof they would hold different functions including trival pursuit, pajama parties and St patricks day celebreations.

We spend the 1st day we arrived walking around the city soaking up the citys culture and pollution. Hawkers of every kind can be found on the street corners with taxis and busses covering the streets.

We met various Gringos the first night at the hostel bar and then were taken to the local bars and clubs. Our second night we celebrated St Patricks day as there was a large irish backpacker community at the local hostels. Unfortunately Mike took the celbration too far and I had to put him to bed by 1 am . Think the pictures you can tell why.

Our main reason for coming to lap paz was to mountain bike the worlds most dangerous road and visit an active prison called San Pedro Prison, an equivalent to the prison in Prison Break 3, just with real life "Tea Bags".