About 10 minutes walk from our apartment we can enter the hoodoos -- amazing rock formations which surround the city and form part of the Valle de la Luna (valley of the moon) park. We went climbing and hiking in this surreal landscape recently. And... we discovered the "Rio Secreto" of La Paz. It has been almost completely built over and now runs underneath the city. The municipal government is doing some public works to channel the river in stone and cement canals. It reminds us of the ghost town we visited in B.C. last summer where the town had built a giant boardwalk overtop of the river... which lasted until the flood, which wiped out the boardwalk and most of the town. The Rio La Paz has been covered for a century so the chance of a flood seems lower, but you never know!
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