After our long journey from Mendoza we pulled into La Quiaca and crossed the border over to Villazon, Bolivia.We made our way to Tupiza to pick up a missed tour of the Salar de Uyuni.A few months ago, on our initial journey southward, the rainy season had prompted us to postpone the tour due to the fact the Salar was almost 80% inundated with water, leaving many parts unreachable. The four-day tour commenced in Tupiza, a small town a couple of hours north of t...

We're back in Oruro now, where we went to Carnaval a couple of weeks ago. We're leaving on a bus to Iquique, Chile in an hour, about a ten hour ride to the coastline that Bolivia lost to the Chileans in the late 1800's. Our last couple of weeks have been spent in southern Bolivia in the towns of Sucre and Potosí, the majority in Sucre.Sucre is a nice old colonial town with all the old Spanish architecture and white stucco buildings. As I mentioned the judicial...

Well, it feels it has been awhile since we've written. It has been a great time so far here in Bolivia and so far have definitely liked it more than Peru. That said, I feel (similar to Peru) like we haven't really done much. After Copacabana and La Paz, we've skipped all the way down to Sucre. We've bypassed a lot of places between here and there, coming to find that many things to do have been foiled by the rainy season.Our last adventure in La Paz, biking dow...

We did it! Last Thursday, we started a four-day, three-night trek to Cerro Charkini and Huayna Potosí. On Thursday, we took the hour ride up to base camp at Huayna Potosí and had a chance to practice our skills at what is called Glacial Viejo - with crampons and an ice axe.For the final skill, our guide, Porfidio, had us climb a 90 degree glaciar using two ice axes…Aaron of course had a blast and I managed to power my way up as well! Day two...

Seems like it has been a long time since we have checked in...we spent more time than expected in Arequipa, Peru but it was all in the name of good fun. We even managed to get ourselves out for a little bit of the Arequipan nightlife - first salsa, then reggaeton discoteque `till 3am. The men could most accurately be described as pirhanas surrounding their kill, as Heather (the girl we met in Machu Picchu) and I soon discovered! We went white water rafting for ...