Sucre is a lovely city. The first thing that struck us was how much nicer the climate is here. Arriving at 7am, it was warm enough not to need a fleece and as the day progressed, it just got warmer and warmer to around 25 degrees - perfect! Rather than head to bed as we usually do after a long overnight bus ride, we felt alive enough to go out exploring. Walking around the centre, it's easy to see why Sucre has been dubbed Bolivia's most beautiful city as it's so clean, well kept and full of startlingly white colonial-era [View Full Entry]

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Being back in La Paz has felt good although I was wiped out on our first full day back from the jungle with a severe bout of altitude sickness that left me weak and nauseaous and lacking in any kind of enthusiasm. We had been due to meet up with the other English travellers we met on our jungle tour but I just wasn't well enough. Thankfully I was back on my feet again the next day so we decided to spend the afternoon at the Killi Killi mirador where our efforts for walking up the steep hills at this [View Full Entry]

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After the delights of our jungle expedition, we decided to stay in Rurrenabaque for an extra day before flying back to La Paz. We hadn´t banked on it being so very hot and humid though - far worse than it was in the jungle - and so we pretty much spent most of the day wilting in our room and catching up on sleep. So much for that idea! In the evening, we hunted around for somewhere cheap to eat and ended up at a little chicken roasthouse where we ate for under 20 Bs instead of the whopping 80 [View Full Entry]

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Today was our third and final day in the jungle and we were going to be making our own jewellery - cool! After a leisurely breakfast with the other group, we headed back into the jungle with Angel, our guide, and spent a good hour forraging for nuts, beans and seeds to make into our very own necklaces and rings. On the way we saw loads more fascinating insects and spiders and Angel showed us a type of fungus that tribesfolk often use for writing on. Surprisingly, it was Angel who was also going to show us how to make [View Full Entry]

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Day two in the jungle was promising to be full of adventure as we set off into the rainforest for a 4 hour walk after tucking into a hearty breakfast. Before we set off, Glynn and I ventured to the riverfront to watch the sun shine through the morning haze. Down on the muddy banks of the river we were surprised to find a mass of capybara footprints leading in and out of the water. A capybara is like a cross between a giant rat and an otter. We had no idea that such big animals were living so close [View Full Entry]

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Friday the 13th. Not the kind of day most normal people would book a flight to the deepest jungles of Bolivia but I guess that means we´re not normal (but you knew that already, right?). In keeping with the spirit of things going wrong on this superstitiously bad day, we had a few setbacks. First off, it was raining so heavily in Rurrenabaque that our flight got postponed and ultimately cancelled owing to the plane not being able to land on a soaking wet runway. Not a problem we thought, we´ll just stay put in La Paz for an extra [View Full Entry]

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Sitting in a long boat and powering gently up the Beni River, it was hard to believe that our 3 day trip into the jungle was about to begin. After our hasty arrival and departure in Rurrenabaque, we were suddenly surrounded by nothing but the greenest of trees and sound of the water lapping against the boat. It was bliss. Riding along so close to the water was a relaxing way to travel and we soon made friends with our travel companions, Regula and Mathias from Switzerland. We had been surprised to find so few other people booked onto our [View Full Entry]

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I wanted to write another quick update to let you all know what we've been getting up to all this time in La Paz but to be honest with you, I can't quite remember! That is to say that we've really just been relaxing, doing the mandatory onward travel research and generally watching a lot of movies. We've spent many happy hours just wandering around the city finding all of our usual favourite things like a proper comic shop for Glynn (all in Spanish though) and plenty of Hello Kittie goodies to keep me happy. Glynn also picked himself up [View Full Entry]

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Seeing as we've been in La Paz for a good few days now, we thought it high time we got out a bit and explored one of the city's star attractions, the intriguingly named Valley of the Moon. Before we set off though, we decided to introduce some new friends to the excellent veggie restaurant we've been frequenting. We first met Heather and Tom, a young Englsih couple, at our hostel in Cusco but they were off on the Inca Trail when we left and we never got to swap email addresses with them. What a nice surprise it was [View Full Entry]

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Ok, it's time for an update on our time here in La Paz and the first thing to tell you is that we're having a blast. To be honest we haven't done anything particularly adventurous yet but then it's just been good to be somewhere we can relax and recharge our batteries after all the fun and games in Peru. La Paz is a bustling place and although it's nowhere near as modern and flashy as most other capital cities we've visited, it seems to function pretty well. Well, that is as long as you don't include the traffic! Crossing [View Full Entry]

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