Hello People, Today we had nothing planned, and as it was a Sunday there wasn’t anything open for us to do anyway. We did have a walk around Potosi however, to discover there really isn’t much here! I wrote up a cover letter for P&O to apply to the Tours and Excursions department because Neil has been offered Arcadia from October. There is not a youth department onboard, so I’m going to see if I can work onboard Arcadia in the tours department instead. It could be a long shot to actually get the job and then specifying only for Arcadia. Who knows what the future holds. All I know is that I don’t want to be apart from him for 3 months, and I don’t particularly want to be an unemployed travel partner...but a world ... read more

Hola Everyone, Once again we had a lazy morning until we had to check out at 11am. We had our normal bread and honey and banana breakfast in the hostel. We then put our bags in the hostel storage and headed out to the cable car that is in La Paz, there are three different ones but we picked the one that went up the highest point to look down on the city. It’s only 6BOB return (60p) and you get spectacular views of the huge city with the snow-capped mountains looming in the distance. We also went over the graveyards; here they bury the dead above ground in buildings in rows. The pictures look cool and they’re even behind plastic glass! As we had all day to waste so we walked to the clothes markets, ... read more

Hey, We went for our free breakfast about 8.45am, then went back to bed for the rest of the morning. We booked to stay here longer because we were in long need of a rest with some lie-ins. This hotel is not the best- cold showers, gaps in the window so the room was freezing all day and night, the beds dipped massively so we were on top of each other most of the night and the door takes all Neil’s strength to hold the door up and in to move the lock across, so I have to ask him every time to let me out. We finished the left over pizza for lunch and then headed out for a short walk in the afternoon. We walked around the Witches Market, (if you blink you will ... read more

Hi All, Pick-up from hostel was at 7am, they turned up a little late but still turned up!! They dropped us off at the main pontoon harbor terminal. Here we met our guide and he walked us down to our motorboat to the Uros Floating Islands. It took only 30 mins to get to the floating island and once there, had approximately 1h30 hours with the locals explaining how the islands came about, by tying the reads and roots together once they break free on the lake bottom to create the main base and building upon them layer by layer. We had the opportunity to buy their locally made crafts too. The islands were amazing especially seeing how they have built something out of nothing. We continued on to Taquile Island across the Inca’s sacred lake ... read more

Hello Friends, Family and blogger readers, 17th-20st June Over theses 4 days we embarked on the world famous Inca-Trail, to the capital of the Inca Empire. A total of 44km/27 miles, crossing 3 mountain passes, the highest of which is at an elevation of 4,200m (13,775 ft.). Day 1: Our group of 16 consisted of a family of 7 from Minnesota; a family of 3 from Chicago; a brother and sister from Sydney; and two male police officers from Australia. We were driven from our hotel in Ollantaytambo to Wayllabamba camp, which is at the 82km marker, which indicates the start of the walk. After having our passports stamped and tickets checked we then embarked on our first day of hiking. This first day was an easy 11km walk. We stopped off at a few small ... read more