La Paz

After the tour of the salt flats we arrived in Uyuni, which we had heard wasn´t anything special and it turned out everyone was right. We arranged the first bus out of there to La Paz and then we were left with 6 hours to kill in the fabulous and exotic Uyuni. We occupied most of our time with a favorite passtime of most people...eating. Not surprising the highlight of Uyuni turned out to be was Minuteman Pizza, which was hard to find but well worth the search for the great pizza and wine. Although the pizza was great I think anything would have tasted good at that point and I still regret not getting the BBQ'ed llama pizza.

After a 12 hour night bus we arrived in La Paz. I know a lot of people like La Paz, but I did not. I found it crowded, polluted and too busy, not to mention the fact that it was raining that day. The Coca Museum was quite interesting and focused on explaining how the Coca leaf was part of the Bolivian's culture and in no way resembled one it's more well known byproducts - cocaine. After the museum I just wanted the first bus out of La Paz. We stayed a night at the Brewhouse Adventure Hostel which had a microbrewery on site and included a free beer with each night's stay. This hostel was great and I would recommend it to anyone going to La Paz. The next morning we took a four hour bus to Copacabana on Lake Titicaca. I found La Paz so uninteresting I did not take any pictures.

An interesting part of the journey from La Paz to Copacabana was when we crossed a narrow section of Lake Titicaca and the bus had to take a different ferry than us.