After having spend some time in La Paz, we’ve kinda fell in love with the place. It’s busy, but not too. It’s big, yet modest. It’s local, but with a touch of worldly on the side.

 

In La Paz the traditional life seems to lively exists beside the modern one; colourfully dressed Bolivian ladies in a Spanish architectural décor. Wifi and great coffee right next door to your 2 dollar local menu. Local witch-stuff alongside your backpackers bohemian cafe. Markets full of unknown goods and contemporary design shops. Minibuses and old Dodges bring you to anywhere you want to go for about 20 cents. Peolpe dressed in zebra suits lead the crowd safely over the streets. And for those who want to get a glimpse of the majistic height of the highest capital of the world, just take a ride in the modern cable car or climb onto the super local market in El Alto. 

 

In short: La Paz seems to have it all, the antique, indgenous, and traditional, and the modern, the new and the now.  And true so. Why should it be one or the other? So we say: please, keep it all La Paz. Don’t change. Keep the old and do the new. Don't turn into one of another... the world has got plenty of those. Keep the crazy touch, the local, the traditional, the new, because it seems to fit perfectly together.