On Saturday we flew to Rurrenabaque on a 18 seater plane! I´ve never been on a plane that small. There was one seat on either side of the aisle and you had to bend down once you were inside. The views of La Paz and then the Amazonian jungle were amazing but I had my seat belt on the whole way as it was quite a bumpy ride! Thankfully it was a smooth landing and when we got out we realised that it was a grassy runway with a very small building at one end - somethi...

Well we caught our flight to La Paz on Thursday. In the taxi on the way to Tarija airport I noticed that there were lots of women digging up a walkway - the Bolivian attitude is to give more a people a job even if it is far too many people working in one place! We also past a very long queue for petrol and the taxi driver told us that this was due to the road blocks. He said "it´s crazy like our president!" We arrived in La paz at lunchtime, checked i...

Well we´ve had funny couple day. On Monday we got a smelly cama (lots of space and comfy this time!) local bus, 12 hours, to the city of Tarija - Bolivia´s wine region, 1866m above sea level. The journey itself was fine, the bus had the usual screaming baby and people standing in the aisles. At 6am Tuesday, about half an hour from Tarija the bus stopped behind a line of a couple of other buses and some trucks. We got out to see what was happening, only to disco...

On Thursday we caught the 7hr bus to Potosi (cost 2 pound) with a dutch guy called Paul from our salt flat trip. We took the local bus, our rucksacks were strapped to the roof and the ride was cramped to say the least! The journey took us on windy, dusty roads on the side of the mountains, through deserted villages in the middle of nowhere. Locals got off the bus with lots of bags and there was not a town in sight, some people stood in the aisle the whole way and...

We arrived in the very isolated town of Uyuni, which is 3670m above sea level, at 6 am last Sunday morning after no sleep and a very very bumpy 11 hr bus ride. At one point I thought the bus was going to topple over. It was like riding on the moon!! The bus stunk of people, the spring on my seat was broken so it wouldn´t stay back and the guy in front of me was nearly in my lap!! There was a local woman (cholitas), wearing the traditional pleated skirt, shawl an...