I woke up fairly early and went for an excellent breakfast on the rooftop of the hotel where you can see a lot of the city. The morning was a lazy one by choice. I needed a little rest in a nice place, with a good breakfast,. a nice bedroom and some great mate de coca. I left around 11 and decided to go for a city tour on foot. I am located pretty central so I have everything so close. The city is very hectic with cars, people and animals crossing the street without any specific rules. The tour was nice and I managed to stop in many markets being nosey but without buying anything. Late afternoon it did started raining a lot so I returned to the hotel until I left for a pizza in a nearby restaurant to then go back to my room,
A very calm day to recharge the batteries. It was excellent. The day after, I managed to book a double tour to the Moon Valley outside the city and another one to discover all the best areas of La Paz. It did start around 13.30 and finished around 17. Before doing the tour though, I booked my ticket for Potosi. The bus will leave around 8.30pm and will drop me there at 6.30am. I will take a tour inside the mines which it's going to be an incredible experience. From there I will probably go to Sucre, spend the afternoon and night there, then back to Potosi and finally to Uyuni. I should be there on Monday morning tight to start the 3 days in the Salar, tour which I have booked yesterday.
I am leaving La Paz in few hours and I definitely put my thumbs up for the city. It is extremely polluted and chaotic but it has a great soul. In its chaos, everyone knows what to do and where to go. The city shows at the same time the difference in class between the few rich and the many poor. As per in many developing countries, this difference seems to increase rather than to disappear unfortunately. I hope that one day, in my next visit, the situation will be better than nowadays.
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