hello and welcome back to nicole amico if you are new around here we are full-time
travelers who have been most recently exploring south america we have just arrived in our third
country here which is bolivia and today we're in the city of la paz we'll be checking out
the sites and we'll be also trying as many bolivian foods as we can so come with us
okay we're starting off the day with some bolivian breakfast we weren't sure how far hard would be
to like try and find like traditional bolivian breakfast food it was super super simple yeah
looks so good welcome to breakfast with olivia oh my goodness okay i'm going to swap mika because
i think he should try this because i think this looks like a nicole dish this looks like a dish
but this is filled with cheese there's a screaming nicole
okay so we have three different dishes that we've ordered for breakfast plus
coffee of course and the first one why don't we do this drink first this is happy okay appy is
made from purple corn predominantly and then there's spices inside it can be served hot
or cold but from what i understand it's like really traditionally a morning drink served
warm it's so thick that you can like eat it with a spoon but it can also just be
drink right from the cup smells so good it smells like christmas it smells like cinnamon and nutmeg
oh my god that is so good it's kind of rich there's a little tanginess to it
if i'm honest i saw this drink online and thought ew i'm gonna hate that it just doesn't look like
something i would enjoy but this is super super good what a beautiful morning drink
okay so for breakfast for me i got the bolivian which looks like this i think it's wrapped in like
the husk of corn but uh let's open up yeah oh wow it smells like it smells like corn
like corn in the cob so minta is made out of like fresh corn ground and then it's mixed with
some minis seeds it's infused with some cheese as well and then i guess it's wrapped in a corn husk
that's pretty good it's thick i'm it's like almost like cream corn it's a little sweet and there's
like little bits of seeds here and there it's pretty good that was me really filling though
i don't think i should eat all of it save some room for more later
this is pastel queso which i think is like almost similar to an empanada it's
deep fried and from what i understand it's really common in the morning to have pasta queso and
apple together so of course we've got one wow it's actually really like fluffy feeling like puffy oh
oh my gosh our chicken back that's nothing like an empanada
it's kind of like a donut i don't even see the cheese but like it's almost like it's like baked
on the inside like and just like against all of the layers oh my gosh that is stinking good
let's put your leftovers in there i think a little burst hold the coffee in there in here come on in
okay so behind us has to be one of the most interesting buildings in la paz this is san
pedro prison so it actually has no guards inside and there are apparently some guards or policemen
who sort of walk the perimeter although we actually haven't seen it yet but it's very
unique in that there aren't there's no one inside to sort of create order so the inmates themselves
have created order and the reason for that is just because there's so many more prisoners inside than
the prison was really built for that's what's massively overcrowded and incredibly underfunded
so the prisoners created this own community and economic system there's a whole society inside
of prisoners they have jobs they have shops and convenience stores and markets like all ran by
the prisoners there's an elected officials that are run by the prisoners yeah it's it's so unique
they pay rent for themselves or even buy sells like as a prisoner leaves another one buys the
next cell and um most of the wives and children of the prisoners who are inside actually live inside
with them and the other thing it's really well known for is that it produces some of the purest
cocaine in the whole world apparently that's where they get most of their income yeah and it doesn't
look like much from out here but like it's so interesting to know that there's like an entire
very well functioning community inside that's just adapted to the condition
i don't know what it is but la paz so far is the city that has the most street dogs with
clothing on well i don't think there's streets i think people own them they just like roam the
streets during the day they're all wearing like jackets maybe maybe instead of a collar they
have they give them dresses and shirts yeah sure they're like owned i don't know it's super cute
all right welcome to la paz's teleprinter system so the paws is really well connected by cable cars
and the reason for that is because it's like massively built into the hills so you can't build
like an underground system or anything so these cable cars the telefreakos are actually their
public transit system so it's super cheap to be on here it costs us like six billions to go one way
for the two of us i feel like a kid at amusement park right now this is awesome this is so cool wow
if you're coming to the past they say that the red line is the best telefreako line to
take it's really short it's only a couple of stops um but you get to go over the cemetery
which is really neat and then you get to see this really colorful community here so
i highly recommend this guy it's only i think 10 minutes out and then 10 minutes back
i can feel my ears popping so if you didn't know la paz bolivia is actually the highest
administrative capital in the world sitting around like 3 800 meters above sea level
so nicole and i have actually been here for five or six days already and this is the first time
we've actually gone out to see la paz only because the first five or six days we've been so sick
with altitude sickness coming from santiago chile and then gaining almost 4 000 meters of
elevation in 24 hours just took a huge toll on our body like way more than we expected
we waited so long to see this city built up into the andes and so far it's been worth it
at the top of the telefico there's a donut king and i think that for five
boliviano so i think we're gonna try one or two
i wonder what probably we get i don't know it looks amazing
oh it's a really good donut i can't quite put my finger on it it's like bubble gum actually and a
donut oh it's weird it's weird all right i think we got what we needed up here let's go back down
right now but it's just so cool because it's like you just we're just walking on the streets like
the easiest streets to get there and so many streets look like this one like they're just
covered in all these vendors there's so much going on so much to look at so much to listen to so much
to smell and they're just they're beautiful i really like it it's a really neat place
so we've made our way to mercado lonza and it's one of the big marketplaces here in la
paz and it's kind of neat because it's like this building that is filled with what looks
like numerous tiny little sea containers and each sea container has like a different store
it could be a little restaurant it could be a little like shop for somebody but there's so
many businesses i'm overwhelmed i am too and we're trying to find some good bolivian food
all right just a quick update we've been walking around the uh
ricardo lanza for a little while now and it's uh it's a challenge to try and find a place to eat
because there are so many options and there's so many people yelling at us to come to their shop
and we don't exactly know what's on the menu i feel like if we talk to
anybody or make eye contact we're like committed yeah we're hooped and like we can't read any
things we don't know what like what the menu items are even if we actually can look at a shop
long enough to try and read it like a menu and yeah i'm a little overwhelmed on we're gonna get
oh
okay so we finally found a place that was perfect for maybe nicole and i to try some new foods
um and the lady here she is super nice got some or i got some i don't even really know i know pork
some chicken some broth and she included a couple different things i don't know what it is but it's
delicious i don't think it's uh chicken i think it's pork yeah i don't like chicken either so
yeah nicole is not a big pork fan but i am this is like my favorite kind of pork it's like a little
bit fatty still on the bone it's probably not good for you but that means it's like full of flavor
wow that was good i thought i've had this before i would almost say that it looks like filipino food
but it's got like a tomato based broth and then mixed with the with the pork it's it's really good
are adorable okay we found ourselves some mocha chunky which is a super like common drink you're
seeing tons of people drinking it it's actually considered like a bolivian cider it's you can
see inside it's made from dried peaches so we had something similar in santiago uh not
that long ago that this really reminds me of i'm wondering if this would be similar it smells good
oh that's that's nice it doesn't taste really good it tastes like um
apple juice with a bit of cinnamon and then just a little less sweet is that a pet in there
no that's a whole dried peach an entire it's an entire dry peach at the bottom there
that was amazing i would love to like live here and like eat at a different shop or a restaurant
every single day i just would never run out of good food okay mikko got lunch and earlier we
saw that there's like massive like fruity desserty i don't know that looked amazing i'm calling that
my lunch today we're gonna try and find some of those here i definitely think they're here
so i think nicole just found her store the shop is so cute it's just like
i mean they don't look like this but they're just like there's just so much to look at
it's so busy there's a tv on i got some good spanish television and like christmas is here
there's like fake currency in there there's so much to look at it looks good
it's not even anything every time we look away the concoction gets bigger
14 ingredients on it already
this thing weighs like six pounds
there's like honey on top and that's like there's ice cream in there there's pear in here like
this is gonna take i'm gonna be here all day this will be the rest of the vlog
i'm gonna just like do my best to get a little further down on this and tell you how it is when
we get to the like the lower layers this shop is actually like really neat like it's such a small
space but there's tons of fruits involved in what they're selling so like if you look around you'll
actually see that there's fruits like shoved in every like nook and cranny in this shop
all right we have made we have made city progress i think we've we're down to the bananas from the
jello i think it had like eight different kinds of frozen in here those are like everything seriously
yummy ones
so we finally escaped lanza mercada i think we've been there all day if we weren't so
full but now we've made our way to plaza mayor de san francisco or san francisco plaza
and there's lots going on here as well
okay i know that we just ate like ice cream on top of our fruit
but we really wanted to try this too today it's called canelo canela and i just we'd
read about it online it is a non-dairy ice cream made with cinnamon and lemon you try
first yeah i mean it's not a hot day but we're just trying every street food so here we go
oh that's good wow it's really sweet it's like um
it's like um those like cinnamon hearts yeah yeah that's exactly what it is if you
took cinnamon hearts but like had like a ice version of it oh that's yummy and less intense
yeah which is kind of nice cinnamon hearts can be a lot oh that's good yeah it's like
like it's ice not really ice cream no dairy nice little change of paste from like the
regular chocolate vanilla i like it well it's good all right another win nice it's a good food day
so francisco where we are right now got its name because that is san francisco church
and at the um plaza here lots of like protests go on um big gatherings big like festivals and
things like that lots of things to celebrate and then as we can see here there's like those
shops set up and like people performing there's busy there's a lot a lot happening here
all right we got rained out for a couple minutes back we were patient we weren't grabbing coffee
uh and now we've arrived at the witches market so the witches market is another sort of like
important place that most tourists go if you come to la paz um it's really cool because it's sort of
where you would find any of the ingredients or yeah items necessary to partake in any of these
sort of older customs that um are still prominent here in bolivia that we would often refer to a
sort of witchcraft and so lots of different things for different sort of potions tinctures um as well
as i think the most part of probably distinct item you can find here is llama fetuses or um like dead
llama babies um which are typically put underneath of a new like a new newly constructed building
um which is supposed to bring good luck you can also have like your fortune read here
or have tarot cards read to you um and get all sorts of like ingredients for different potions
if you like for instance want to have someone fall in love with you and you want to make a potion for
that you can find all of those cool things here now my babies i read somewhere that they don't
kill the long babies they only take the ones that like are either that they're born not living or
of course fetuses that are miscarried oh that's true or if that's just to make us feel better
hey so i guess we've got something i always water from the witch's market
i'm so excited about it look how south american it is it's a pretty good win for the day right
now just to fit in my backpack get ready to see that sweater very often in the next few vlogs
this is your first time in la pub yes yeah yeah it's been your one week yeah i'm from canada
thank you very i live in much
but born in the philippines
wow olivia is so nice beautiful i really like it
someday i will i will go to canada come and visit one day
all right so for the last meal of the day for dinner our journey takes us to a hole in the wall
um nearby our airbnb and they're serving some choripan which is something we've heard of
it's like a type of sandwich it's like a really really classic eating all the time here kind of
sandwich i think typically you can get it like with chicken maybe with uh macaroni like meat
maybe even with fish and then i think that a pretty classic way to serve this with avocado
lettuce tomato to be honest we're not sure what we're getting because we the only one kind here
and we couldn't quite understand what kind it is so we just said it will order two of those
so i don't know we're not sure we're getting um but we'll see in a minute when it comes to pad
i guess this is the kind we got oh that looks good nico's gonna love this because it's got some
weird interesting looking meat on it oh it is like sausage kind of it actually looks
quite good even though i'm not a big sausage fan so there's like the sausage meat thing
there is lettuce there is tomato and that is it i don't even see a sauce this is dinner of champions
right here some chore pan a couple of coca-colas it's a good night jody ben cheers bolivia
wow that was really good you're gonna love this this meat i think it's like fried it feels um like
fairly greasy but it also seems like seasoned with something like it's not just like straight i mean
which is good for me because i need to like cover up the taste of the meat this is my preference
that is really really yummy what an awesome dinner really really good i'm going to call this a day
we're going to eat our dinner and let you guys go here i hope you enjoyed walking around la paz with
us and trying a whole bunch of different foods that we've never tried before it was delicious
it was fun honestly we really like the house this is a really cool city it's such a cool energy
it's such delicious food and the people are so friendly you gotta come here it's been an awesome
day and we're going to be here though and we'll catch you in the next one thanks for watching
we're good yep step 1 step on dog poop did you step up did you actually what a way to start a day
got bolivia and today in the city it's amazing and all crap foods as we can so come with us
headed to on what do we where are those markets we've come to what's called again alonzo