A day inside a Bolivian jail

Have you ever been offered a line of cocaine in prison? This photo was taken inside San Pedro Prison in La Paz, Bolivia. You put the cocaine on the mirror and snort it. So what were we doing inside this prison cell, you wonder. We bribed the inmates and the police to give us a tour. Don't worry, this is the thing to do in Bolivia's capital. We were treated like royal guests and even offered one gram of pure cocaine at the discounted price of 100 Bolivianos ($25AUD or $14USD). The Australian girl we were with got a bit scared when our "tour guide" left us inside a cell and closed the door. But everything was fine. We met the children and wives who live inside, walked past the hairdresser's, visited the pool room, tried some prison baked cake and had a chat to a cocaine addict who hadn't slept in a week (that's him yawning in the photo). If you can afford it, you get private bathroom and amenities. If you're poor, you live in miserable conditions with 3 or 4 other prisoners in the one cell and clean all day. Our inmate tour guide was paranoid about getting his throat slashed for some reason. If this blog post sounds a bit warped and random, you can only imagine what the actual experience was like. If we recall correctly, our first words when we left were, "That was f***ing weird".