We booked our tickets from Copacabana to the Bolivian capital La Paz for 25 BOB¹ each from a tour agency in Copacabana. The bus left at 6.30 PM and the seats on the bus were comfortable enough for the 4-hour journey. We saw that it’s also possible to buy a ticket directly from the bus driver when boarding, which is probably a little cheaper. It took about an hour to reach Tiquina where everyone has to get off the bus and get on a boat to cross the Strait of Tiquina. It was dark and a little chilly so make sure you wear warm clothing. The bus crosses on a ‘ferry’ which looks like a large makeshift wooden boat. It’s amazing and scary to see how they carry the buses across the strait. It takes some time for the bus to cross over and there’s no indoor seating area to wait in. Some street vendors were selling hot drinks and snacks which you can get while you wait. The whole process isn’t very well organized. We asked where to wait for the bus and we were just told to wait at the corner of the street. There doesn’t seem to be any signposted area of where the bus picks us up so we just joined the group of people we saw who got off the bus with us. Once the bus came, it was another 2-hours 30-minutes to La Paz. We arrived at around 10.15 PM and the bus stopped at the terminal by the cemetery rather than the main terminal. It was dark and deserted, so we quickly ordered an Uber² to take us to our hotel in the the Witches Market. Once we checked in, we just went to bed to get up early to explore the city the next day.