Day 49-24th October Well we were rather abruptly woken up by the bus’s trolly dolly that we were at Nazca so we bid the girls goodbye and a safe journey and exited the bus... off the bus went and we were left at 06:00 in the middle of a dusty town with no real plans other than to get a plane over the lines so we immediately jumped in a cab and raced for the airport excited as two little school children on the way to Disneyland. Although very early there were a couple of companies selling tickets so Liz went through the names of the reputable companies to use, Air Diana, Travel Air, Aero Paracas and finally Air Perunas. All others were off limits as they had failed safety checks after the recent crashes. We ... read more

Day 44-47-19th-22nd October So with a poisoned husband, we did very little for the next couple of days. We had planned to move on to Arequipa the day after the Lake Titicaca tour, but with Ellory in such bad shape we decided to stay put and wait for his stomach to get better before we risked the 6 hour bus journey. Bless him, he really wasn’t very well, but eventually progressed from eating nothing and only drinking water, to some pasta with tomato and tuna sauce and finally onto a meal in a restaurant in the centre of Puno, which I believe was called the Inca Cafe. The food was pretty damn tasty, but the presentation, holy cow it blew posh London restaurants right out of the water. I was gutted as I didn’t have my ... read more

Day 39-42-14th-17th October So we arrived back in La Paz, smelling to high heaven, sleep deprived and having fantasies about a hot shower and a comfy bed. We hadn’t booked into a hostel in La Paz but had a leaflet for somewhere called the Brew Hostel which looked nicer than The Point where we had previously stayed so we walked around the corner from the bus station to check it out. They had no free rooms, dammit. No problem, we’ll head back to the Point, we thought. We gave them a call, no room, tried another hostel, no room. We were starting to get annoyed at this point; we just wanted a double room with an ensuite, is that so much to ask?! We eventually found a room at the Onkel Inn Hostel which at 25 ... read more

Day 37-12th October (Salar De Uyuni tour day two) (Apologies for the delay R&F who paid for this excursion as a wedding prezzie for Liz and I, I already wrote this and the computer automatically shut down on me halfway through... thus losing the lot yesterday so I took a break to calm down and rewrite it!) So after a good day climbing trains, looking at cacti and balancing on water bottles we had an early and salty night, mostly because we had an early start! “Hola, Buenos Dias Chica’s y Chico, Vamos” was the first thing we heard while it was still dark, Snr Don Phillipe was getting our breakfast ready on our salty table which consisted of Juice, tea, bread and Jam. We were all a bit bleary eyed and staggered around aimlessly getting ... read more

Day 33-35-8th-10th October Well after our late night/early morning we just spent the next day chilling out. My watch had stopped working that night and we’d really had no idea how late it was until we left the nightclub and it was daylight! Whoops. Wasted day then, however we’d had a good night. The next two days were taken up with more shopping and planning our next move. La Paz is so cheap and the goods are so beautiful that it is almost impossible to resist! I could have quite happily bought a lot more, but the fact we have to carry it around for nearly another 3 weeks put me off a bit. However we did end up buying 2 small holdalls made of alpaca. Couldn’t help it, they’re great! So we are now carrying, ... read more