A new year, 10th country,29 towns/cities, 116 days, 12.430 miles covered, 150 hours on overnight buses(and the rest), 34 different beds, 4, 500ft in La Paz, 4 weeks left in South America, 6 months left in total and still loving it!
January 11th 2011 We last left you in between Christmas and New year as we were about to embark on our wee tour to Machu Pichu. Before we got to go on a trip of a lifetime we had New Years Eve to celebrate Cusco style. Cusco is defiantly a beautiful city but it takes your breath away for all the wrong reasons. Tom and I both struggled with the altitude when we first arrived which wasn't helped by the fact our ho
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Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and counter-coups. Comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1... ... read more 
