We’ve spent the last couple of days wandering around La Paz, and hooked up again with Tania, the Dutch girl we met at Copacabana. Highlights have included:
- Visiting the Witches market: This is a small street lined with stalls selling oddities such as dried frogs, and dried Llama fetuses – really grim! The Llama fetuses are used throughout Bolivia to bring good luck to new buildings – they are buried in the foundations to stop the buildings being damaged in earthquakes and bring good luck to the residents.
Some fetuses were small and looked like dried up twigs – others were larger and looked like they’d been plucked from the womb just before birth – there were dozens of stalls selling them, all doing a roaring trade – tres bizarre!
- Visiting the monastary of San Fransisco – the best bit was going into the crypt in the pitch dark and the guide showing us the various tombs with her small flashlight – very creepy!
Other than that we’ve just hung out taking it easy!
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