After marvelling at the strength of the people in La Paz, and promising to never complain about work again! (everyone in Bolivia seems to work so hard! the women especially!) We ventured down hill with the beautiful snow capped mountian as a backdrop to the city! Towards the market for lunch! As I had just been to an ATM, I offered to buy mum's lunch! We had a lovely 2 course meal! When we asked for the bill, we realised me paying may not be an option! Both meals together came to 8 Bolivianos! (50 pence!) of course, all I had was 50 Boliviano notes! nobody in Bolivia carries change! So after many giggles from the staff, mum paid again!
We had a nosy around the central square, houses or parliment and the Prime Ministers house! (he wasn't home!) Before heading up towards the oldest street in La Paz! (very similar to the Shambles in York, without the tourist tat!) We called in a cafe for a smoothie, and soon got chatting to the couple sat nearby! exchanging travel tales! only to realise that I knew them from York! (small world!)
Mum and I were on a mission to find the entrance to the Cathedral - through the main doors one would think! not so simple! 
On the first read of the lonely planet, we were lead to believe that the entrance was on the street below, however, walking down there drew a blank! After another look at the LP we realised we weren't reading it properly! The enterance was where we started! (back up the hill!) Puffing our was back up there we found the entrance! CLOSED!!
Back to rummaging around the stalls! We spotted a different market that we hadn't yet explored! with loads of juice stalls! with atleast 20 different types of juice all the fresh fruit beautifully balanced on the front of the stalls! As we walked past, all the girls were shouting at us to buy a drink from them! (how much juice do they think we can consume!) Manyana! Manyana!
DAY 3!
Jenny has arrived! Womble and I headed into town to finish yesterdays haggling! and of course, to keep to our word, and have some fruit juice from one of the stalls! So tasty!!
Back at camp, we packed up, to get on the road!! Destination - TIWANAKU! 600bc old town!
We hired a taxi to guide us out of the city! (makes Sutton Bank look flat!) The hills were huge! and driving up them was quite daunting at times! I kept getting a very unnerving feeling that we were going to get stuck, or mum was going to drive into the gutter! Safely out of the city, we drove across 40km of beautiful countryside! with scattered farms, and still more dogs! We parked up for the night outside the enterance to the ruins so we could be ready first thing in the morning!!
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