After staying in Lima for a day and a half, we flew to La Paz, the capital of bolivia, which at ~3600m is the highest altitude capital city in the world. The logic in doing this is that the others all have return flights from Lima, Jodh and Niall in 4 weeks time, Lyle, Joe and Alex in 6 weeks time. Me, who knows! It makes more sense for us to work back towards Lima in these 4 weeks rather than travel many miles in a circle.
Upon arriving at la Paz airport (which contains the highest altitude burger joint in the world), we were offered a taxi, which we accepted, before finding out it was a normal 5 seater car, to fit the driver, the 6 of us, and all our bags… 2 in the passenger seat and 4 in the back lead to one of the funniest, and most uncomfortable car journeys to date. After being dropped off we tackled a 10m long small incline to the hostel, which due to not being acclimatised to the altitude at all was actually quite difficult!
The next day we began to explore la Paz via cable car, providing excellent views and also just had a wander about. We all tried to take it easy and acclimatise, most of us having headaches and finding it hard to breathe. The day after we went to Valle de lune, which was a site with strange rock formations formed due to rain on extremely soft rock.
On the evening, feeling much better with the altitude, we prepared for our first trek.
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