our breakfast normally looks like something like this... market food and instant coffee. i have struggled, with finding some decent coffee. ...the tough life of travellers ;)
la paz is busy. oh so busy. you have to know, it is like you can barely cross the street busy (worse than arequipa). there is so many people! but hey, we were blessed with a beautiful day, the way on the bus was also beautiful.
we walked around. market, markets, marketsss everywhere. plaza stops to breathe. lots of street food. good street food.
...and bus rides through the market. every two minutes someone would get inside the bus trying to sell stuff like, lables with shakira's face, imported pilot pens (top-quality!), or ice cream. it was going so slow, because of the traffic and all the people, that they would just get on and off. but it felt good. to be there. in the middle of the cahos... all the people, all the smells. spices, food, dust and smoke. asking the people on the bus for direction, trying to understand eachother, because, there is this huge language barrier for us in bolivia, i dont know why, but it is there. ...and when people learn that we are all from different countries, their faces either lit up, or show confusion. "puerto rico!? ...where is that?!?" and then when i say, responses are either related to costa rica, or to reggaeton, or they say, "so pretty puerto rico!" or "that is so far!". experiences with people.
walk and talk and run and laugh and eat. that was la paz, for a day and a half.
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