The bus drive from Uyuni to Potosi was interesting - a jeep slammed into our bus and one of our tyres was hanging off a big clif - we were very lucky not to have gone off. Arrived in Potosi which were not too impressed with given that it is a world heratige site. In the afternoon we went to the famous silver mine there. Before we went in we bought coca leaves a soft drinks for the miners, and some coca leaves for us to chew - it was disgusting.It is still a worki...

Our first taste of Bolivia was the border control, which seemed to be a small shack in the middle of nowhere with a burnt out bus being the bathroom. We got in our jeeps which we were going to spend the next 3 days in, with our driver Doro (aka Doris). This was an amazing three days. We just drove cross country, every so often stopping at some random sight. We saw the white lagoon, green lagoon and red lagoon, some boiling mud pots, some cool rocks and lots and l...

Had an absolutely amazing time in Chile. There were so many activities in San Pedro. The first day that we were there, we went to the lunar valley. Firstly we had a walk through death valley and watched the sandboarders, then we went to some salt caves. Then we went and watched sunset over the lunar valley, and the whole valley turned a bright red colour -amazing. The next day we hired sandboards and bikes and cycled to death valley, which is supposed to be one ...

Arrived in Arequipa after another hideous night bus journey and immediately went to the laundry - after about a week of not being in one place long enough to do any, it was so nice to have clean washing! Simple pleasures. Then went out to breakfast in the Plaza de Armas - it was so pretty with loads of lovely places to eat. Over the next couple of days we went the the Santa Catalina convent, a convent where the rich of Arequipa used to send their daughters - it ...

Arrived in Nasca and it was absolutely boiling hot and really humid. Thankfully, our hostel had a swimming pool (what a luxury!) so we all got in as quickly as possible - it was lovely. We went out for a very cheap meal, then went to bed as we were all so tired. The next morning we got up and got a taxi to the ´airport´, where five of us got on an absolutely tiny plane. After somebody in my group, Emma´s comments of ´did you know that they tell you to go in t...