La Paz:                                              What a unique city with cable cars reminiscent of skiing criss crossing the bowl that is La Paz . The Spanish originally founded a city 30 miles away but found it so windy that they then found this valley out of the wind and made it their capital together with the usual torture of the local Amyara people who lived here in the name of Christianity . All they were interested in was gold and silver and of course converting everyone to Catholicism. We spent our first day walking around arranging our trip down the Road of death . It was so called because so many people died building it, mostly Paraguain prisoners from the Chaco war . Bolivia lost huge chunks of land that turned out to be useless anyway but now in Paraguay. It was later used by Top Gear as an adventure for the three desperadoes. The crosses are all of cars or buses that fell off the cliff . However 15 cyclists have died on the 64 km journey down hill from 4,800 metres to 1,200 metres . We chose a top of the range company then with great disc brakes on a KONA frame ….well worth it . At the end of our amazing journey from the clouds to the jungle Ceri had not had enough adrenaline so did a Zip wire to complete an amazing day . The one with the plinth deserves mention. Four political rivals were pushed over the edge by the latest ‘ General Presidente ‘of which Bolivia has had many . Bolivia is now run by its enigmatic Evo Morales who was himself a product of poor campesnos . He has certainly turned Bolivia around from being a basket case economy into a successful country mostly by refusing bribes and handouts from the USA . He has encouraged local use of Coca and stopped its wholesale destruction which the USA wanted . He is part of pink South America and was good friends with Castro and Mandela . He is still a controversial figure however . Why then is there a picture of Ceri with a broken couch . Watching England Wales she jumped up and sat down rather quickly . She fessed up and the owners were most sympathetic and asked for no money