ok so after the most hurrendous bus journey from uyuni we arrived in la paz the capital of bolivia and the highest capital city in the world, let me tell you about the bus though 1st. It was deffinatly not the tourist gringo bus it was a shed on wheels full of locals crammed in the isles with some annoying drunken singing person playing the guitar and howling bolivian songs for 13 hours! (the singing at 1st was good but at 5 in the morning when your knackered squashed and have been shaken to death on the bumpies dirt track ever somehow the singing isnt quite as appealing) anyway enough about that.....mum, dad you might want to stop reading at this point.... Theres something called the death road in bolivia which runs from la paz to ... read more

After a 2.5 hour taxi drive and sing along to some 80s music we arrived in the highest city in the world potosi, this place is stunning and full of character, set in the mountains its full of hussle and bussle of the local markets and food stalls. Everyone is dressed traditionally as they are indignious people, so theres lots of bright colours its amazing. stayed at kuala hostal which is really homley and theres heating as it gets really cold up here at night, you can see the snow capped mountains from our room. Met up with jonny again our long lost friend and went down a working mine for the day, its not forn the faint hearted or a clostrapheobic (if that how you spell it) and not for any saine person either, I ... read more

Ok so after about 25 hours on the move 3 buses and 1 jeap ride later we arrived in the pantanel home of the giant guinea pig that we have been searching for. Spent 6 very memorable days here geting up at 5.30am and out forraging for armadilos, caimens, racoons, cappiburys (named steve the giant guinea pig),parrots,toucans, praying birds and lots more. Did lots of trecking saw armadilos, yes crunchy on the outside smooth on the inside! fished for caimens and piranihs and scrambled round in lots of bushes getting stung by wasps and running for my life. Our gide was gabrielle who was loverly. Its amazing to see someone running round in bare feet catching crocks and armadilos and things, I got stung by a wasp on the first day and he found some tree ... read more

Well we have gone from rags to riches here in sao paulo. gone to meet my brother matt who is working for the red bulliten magazine for the grand prix. We got to stay at the hilton, yippeeee as my brother very kindly let us have his room for 4 days and it was amazing, nice compy beds gorgeous room and bacon and eggs for breakfast, deffinatly gone up in the world from sleeping in tent on an ants next!! Spent 1st day in sao paulo walking aorund and getting stuck in rush hour traffic on dodgy bus full of scally wags. spent next few day in hotel room as was so nice and in roof top pool. Went to the grand prix sunday was wicked to watch all the f1 car zooming round, didnt have ... read more

illa grande is an island off rio, we thought we would trial out the tent, hmmme after much deliberation of which camp site to go to we chose the busiest and a nice man helped us put our tent up (because again we are retards and started putting all the rods in the wrong place would have been there all day otherwise) ok camping may have not been the best idea seen as it was boiling hot and we camped in an ants nest. spent a few days here eating alot and lazing about. went on a boat trip to this gorgeous beach and also did some trecking accross the island, the views were amazing.... read more