Day 23 - we had another free day in La Paz so after breakfast spent most of the day wandering around the city again. We found a few new streets to explore and local bustling specialised market areas - shoes and clothes markets, food markets, party/fancy dress markets. Nigel had a second (Mini English) breakfast at Olivers Tavern late morning then early afternoon we had a cake shop/cafe stop. In the evening we had a delicious pizza at a Lonely Planet recommended restaurant a few doors from our hotel, Martinni Pizza. Their tables were quirky, decorated with 'thank you' napkins. Then we packed our bags and had an early night as we had a 5:30am start again the next day.
Day 24 - A long drive day, 500km, from La Paz to Potosi. We were on the road for 7am and crossed a huge flat Altiplano for much of the journey. We stopped on route in Oruro for lunch then hit more mountainous terrain late afternoon. We arrived at our hotel, Hotel Jerusalem, in Potosi about 6:30pm. Potosi was a once wealthy silver mining city, the largest and wealthiest city of the Americas at one time. Once the silver dried up the city went into decline and poverty, it now mines tin. In the evening we went for a lovely meal to '4,060 restaurant' with Ken, Haydee, Tony and Sadie.
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