Hello again! We are now writing to you from Copacabana, Bolivia. We arrived here yesterday by bus from Puno, Peru. It was a very interesting border crossing - after our documents being check on the Peruvian side, we were told to walk up a hill and through and arched stone entranceway into Bolivia. Our bus would then pick us up on the other side. Here we presented all our documents again, reboarded the bus and continued on for Copacabana. Once in Copacabana, we walked to hotel - Hotel Rosario, which is vrey nice and located on the shore of Lake Titicaca [View Full Entry]

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Hello boys and girls. We expect you're very bored of these blogs by now but we'll keep soldiering on. Like talking to someone who lost consciousness years ago, we feel it's important to keep whittering away in the faint hope that our words will offer some comfort. In fact, let's start with some news for those that don't know. We're due back in England on 20th December, which is less than 5 months now and which means, in the grand scheme of things, we're just around the corner. So if you want us to pick up some milk, just let us [View Full Entry]

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Went out to the Uros on saturday which are floating islands, and met some very cute families all dressed up for us tourists, then we went for 3 hours until another island, real one this time, and met a lovely family who took us in for the night, ate all kinds of roots and leaves, very very rico (mentiro), and then we got all dresed up in indiginous dress and went to the village party, danced some very interesting dances (pulling each other around in a long handholding line for hours, and i mean hours, on end!), then came the night, [View Full Entry]

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Day 289 - Tuesday 15 July We got into La Paz about half six in the morning and took a taxi over to the mountain bike company. We want to pick up our photos and free t-shirt before we leave town. We got there about seven and were hoping one of the guides would be there to sort us out. There was but he said we'd have to wait until 9am when the office opened. Stuck with our bags and with nothing to do we went to the cafe and managed to drag breakfast out for 2 hours. At 9 o'clock [View Full Entry]

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The bus journey went without a hitch - it´s actually one of the best night´s sleeps we´ve had in a while! La Paz is fantastic - lots if hustle and bustle all day and many street markets. We spent 2 days enjoying the madness before getting a flight to Rurrenabaque. Rurre is in the north of Bolivia and on the edge of the Amazon Baisin. The plane was tiny with only 14 passangers on it and was a bit of a bumpy ride, but we could see everything that the pilots were doing and landed on a strip of grass the [View Full Entry]

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A New country. Arriving into La Paz from Puno was an experience in itself. The highest capital city in the world lived up to expectations as we all felt light headed at the 4000 meter + upon arrival. You enter the city via a high plateau and drive down to la paz. It was a truly remarkable sight to drive along the top of a mountain looking down at la paz below. La paz´reputatation preceeds itself as a dangerous city, but nothing could be further from the truth, the people were warm and welcoming wherever we went. However we had little [View Full Entry]

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After a really good night sleep, I woke up to a lovely orange sunshine giving me the energy to start my adventure in the Pampas.. The jeep part was def not pleasant and I really wish I had worn my sport bra, but it was made better from the guide and the cook spotting wildlife on the tree on the way.. The real adventure started on our little boat on the river Beni...it was one alligator after another, lots of exotic birds in the sky, on the trees, in the water; capybaras running on the side of the river, hundreds of [View Full Entry]

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The reason I have returned to La Paz is two fold, one there are a few excursions that I couldnt do last time as the wet season was upon us and two Ihave to make my way back to Peru for my flight home in a few weeks. (plus Chile was destroying my bank balance too!) The beauty of La Paz, is it's character. It has such a different feel to any of the other capitals and main cities that I have been to in South America. As the highest capital in the world at 3640 metres even a simple walk [View Full Entry]

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Leute, Dus wij waren in Sucre, de stad met de witte huizen op een iets aangenamere hoogte (2700 meter) en dus wat warmer. Omdat we hier een poosje zouden blijven hadden we een fijn koloniaal hotelletje uitgezocht en rustig en veel door de stad geslenterd en op terrasjes gezeten. Vooral het café´tje boven op de berg waar je rustig in het zonnetje met een muziekje over de stad uit kon kijken heeft flink wat Boliviano´tjes aan ons verdient. Bij Sucre is een afgraving met beroemde afdrukken van dino´s, het klinkt redelijk suf maar was eigenlijk best gaaf! De plek was binnen [View Full Entry]

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So returning back to Uyuni after the Salar tour, picked up some greasy burger from a street stall and hopped on the bus to Potosi, another very uncomfortable bus ride. However, it was nothing compared to the experience of Potosi itself. Very quickly Moose and I titled it the city of confusion. EVERYTHING confused us. Firstly we arrive at the usual 3am and get a taxi round practically the whole city to find somewhere that wasnt fully occupied. After the first place, the taxi took us to the wrong place, we returned nextdoor to the first place to get to where [View Full Entry]

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