La Paz, Bolivia - Food

The Usual Routine
The day we arrived we went straight to the central market, which in La Paz is a sprawling maze of buildings and street stalls perched on a steep hill.  We walked the market looking for a food stand or makeshift restaurant but didn't find any.  Dodo stopped at a street vendor and ordered something unknown.  It turned out to be a deep-fried potato that had been stuffed with onions and veggies.

La Paz, Bolivia - The Teleferico

High Above the Gridlock
The teleferico lines are differentiated by color.  We planned to take the yellow, which was close to our house, to the green towards the south side of town.  The ride costs 80 cents - I bought a handful of tickets to cover the line change from yellow to green and the return ride home.

La Paz, Bolivia - Magic Realism

Landing on Another Planet
Even if you were possessed of unlimited creativity and time, you could never draw up a city like this.  La Paz is 14,000 feet up, with terracotta houses sprinkled amongst dry shards of mountain, pink and grey.  It's like no city I've ever seen - as if we'd landed on the first city erected on Mars.