Wondering La Paz

Imagine a prehistoric canyon, at 3660 metres, almost filled to the brim with houses, sky rises, cobblestone streets and people. Phil and I, for the past two days, have enjoyed La Paz´s spectacular scenery and amazingly busy streets filled with markets, music, food, and cars/buses/micro-vans. Yesterday, after arranging our 48 hour bus ticket to Buenos Aires, we wondered the streets first visiting an artisan market, where Phil found another lovely instrument, a Quena, a traditional Bolivian wind instrument, made from bone and wood. Next we wondered through the Mercado de Hechiceria, a witch craft market, which lead into a handful of other markets (where we enjoyed a freshly squeezed grapefruit juice) along our way to the Museo de Instrumentos Musicales. This museum had an amazing collection of traditional and modern Bolivian instruments, as well as a collection of international pieces. After this we headed to a little café to collect our musical thoughts, over a te con lemon (and a local liquor), delicious! The rest of the day was spent wondering from a main square to a look off, where Phil learned some Quechua (the language of the Incas) and I made friends with a little girl who graciously accompanied me down a large slide. In the evening we tried to catch some music at a Peña, a local folk-music venue, but by the time we had to head back to our hostel (we had a curfew) the main band was just going on. Although we did get entertained for a couple hours by choreographed dance numbers representing different groups in Bolivia (very touristy, but interesting), and a lovely solo artist on classical guitar. We look forward to exploring La Paz again in a month, but for now it is on to Argentina! Many thanks for the comments, great to hear from you!