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...

Bit gutted today because when we checked out of Arthy´s Guesthouse and got our bill, we discovered that, in fact, it isn´t cheap at all and is actually 5 pound per person a night, which sounds cheap to you guys but for Bolivian standards that´s expensive. It´s been great while I´ve been ill (caught up on all the lastest DVD´s and been able to sit in my PJ´s) but 10 pound for a twin room with no brekkie is a bit steep. Oh well you live and learn! One good ...

Well we´ve had an interesting five days. Tuesday was a very busy day which started with free pancakes at the hostel, nice change from bread and ham. We then puffed our way up the hill, it´s surprising what altitude sickness does to you, to the colonial Calle Jaen, the oldest part of La Paz. From there we popped into the beautiful San Domingo Church to lit a candle and onto Plaza Murillo (main square) which is surrounded by lots of impressive building including ...

Have arrived in La Paz after a bit of a nightmare. Basically we went to check into our LAN airlines flight yesterday from Rio to Santiago and were told that we weren´t book on the flight. Oh my god PANIC! After speaking to the ticket sales desk we realised that because we didn´t take our flight, with the same airline, from Santiago to Mendoza in July (we decided to take the bus instead!) it meant that all our LAN airline flights had been cancelled. Very stupid ...

Had a bit of a stress on Friday when we tried to charge the camera and discovered that it hadn´t charged. Found a photo shop were a very friendly guy worked out that it was our charger that had died and that the battery was fine, thankgod as they are expensive! Bought a new charger but unfortunately couldn´t charge it in time for the day long tour we were going on - gutted!! Had to make do with our trusty disposable camera - not good!! Thankfully the girls on t...