The La Paz Belly

......most streets here are at a 45 degree angle or more, so either going up or down you face a bit of a struggle. It is not helped by markets decorating absolutely every footpath in the city. And the things they sell are unusual. Dried out llama foetus in the Witches market or toilet pots and fake designer label jeans(which I am now a proud owner of, because there was a big hole in my crotch). La Paz is cool for picking up all the tacky stuff you can imagine whilst dodging the local buses with drivers who don`t really care if you are blocking the way or not. But for all its madness La paz is poor. Real Poor. People scavenge through rubbish as if it were a feast, and seeing children huddled in doorways is always a killer....................................
......The La Paz Belly is something of an inconvenient truth that many people who come here must endure. It is not just the domain of people who eat in street kitchens and of travellers. Everyone here gets it. It obviously involves diarrhoea, but also vomitting and in my case a fainting episode in a local restaurant. This bug works its merry way through your system for on average 48 hours before dispersing into an interesting nothingness. This is why I failed to do the Worlds Most Dangerous Road cycle. And the fact that I could not stomach not getting a refund for this trip........
.....San Pedro Prison is too hard to get into and write about. I would need to bribe a prison officer, pretend to be visiting a dangerous prisoner and dress like the prisoners so as not to attract attention. Sorry John.
.....CocaCola buys all the Coca.