We arrived in La Paz at 730am. Adam and Louisa were staying at the same hostel as me so we shared a taxi. The taxi driver didn’t know where the hostel was exactly and he took a bit of a detour, he then tried to charge us more than the price we’d agreed but we didn’t pay it.

When we arrived we were all pretty tired and you could feel the altidute as La Paz is at 3,600m. Lisa, the German girl I’d met in Sucre, came and sat with us as we drank coffee and tried to wake up as we couldn’t check in until midday.

We decided we would join Lisa and her friend Marion and take a trip to the El Alto markets.

To get there you can take the cable cars. We walked to the start of the white line, changed to the orange line and then changed again to the red line to take us to the market. The views from the cable cars were amazing.

We got to El Alto pretty quickly and we were now at just over 4,000m and you could feel it quite a bit.

El Alto is the largest city in Latin America inhabited by indigenous Americans and it is the highest major metropolis in the world. El Alto is an economical centre in its own right.

On March 6, 1987, El Alto was politically separated from the city of La Paz and it became a self- governing entity. The population of El Alto is around 1 million which I think is larger than the population of La Paz.

Like most tourists the main attraction for going to El Alto was to visit the market which is open every Thursday and Sunday. This is the biggest market in Bolivia and stretches over 5km.

It literally sells everything including car parts, clothes, DVDs, medical equipment, food, shoes, toiletries etc. I bought some shoelaces but that was all.

We decided to try some of the food at the market and it was actually really tasty and very cheap.

We also came across this little church as we walked through the market, I thought it looked really pretty.

We caught a different cable car down, the yellow line, in order to get some different views over the city.

Once we got back to the hostel I tried to have a little sleep but only really dozed for a few minutes.

In the evening I met up with Adam and Louisa and we went for some pizza which was delicious as it was all made thete and then and with lovely fresh ingredients.