reluctant traveller

The journey from Puno, Peru to La Paz, Bolivia took us almost the whole day. Though we made sure we had a very good bus leaving Peru we forgot to ask if there was a change involved. We had to change buses in Copacabana (Bolivia) right after crossing the border. We wasted an hour there and then had to get on a super crappy bus : (
There is a fun part to the journey though... a part where we have to get off the bus to cross Titicaca on a boat while the bus is transported on a barge.
We checked into the Adventure Brew hostel... ok rooms and clean and seemed like a really fun place though we didnt stay long enough.

La Paz! What shall I say... city of a million, city in the valley and growing up the mountains (the new city is called El Alto), Bolivia´s capital, somewhat crowded, plenty of taxis but still hard to get one, mini buses and micro buses make up the public transportation, plenty of street food, and most noticeable of all - a line for everything : line for food, line for money (outside banks), line for taxi, line for gas (cylinders), lines for things I couldnt understand. And some great wollen clothes.
I didn´t really find the much talked about witches market but I did see a few stalls with dried llama foetuses while shopping for Uyuni tours. Must have been the witches market.
The whole city stops working from around noon to 2 or 3 which is siesta time. So spent most of day trying to get train tickets to Uyuni (our next destination) only to find that the tickets are sold only a day in advance so had to come back the next day and that they sold out fast so had to come early. (none of this made much sense to me either).
We did watch a soccer match between Bolivia and Peru.. so that was kinda exciting. The game wasnt all that but the experience was fun.
Also visited some super pre inca (1500 BC?) ruins near a village called Tiwanaku some 70 odd km outside La Paz. There wasnt much there but our guide made an interesting half day tour out of it. Chinni had some errands to run so he couldnt make the guided tour but visited them himself taking the public buses.
We didnt manage to find very many good food places here but that could also be because we were here only for a few days.
I would have liked staying a bit longer here but didnt as I was running short of time.

Took the bus to Oruro on the 7th and then the train from Oruro to Uyuni.