Did I say in the last posting that "we now have our travel boots on" ??? ahh, how naive of me..... It should have read "we have our travel slippers on". Travelling through Argentina and Chile was a long holiday compared to Bolivia. We crossed the border into Bolivia at dawn after an overnight bus trip from Salta in North Argentina. After walking across the border and being grudgingly admitted to the country by a Bolivian soldier, we made our way to the bus station and got our first taste of travel in Bolivia. It was bedlam and a case of every man, woman and animal for itself we fought our way into a dilapidated bus with huge amounts of people, rabbits and dogs. Where, we cried, had the lovely buses of Argentina gone!! We had
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