Tupiza is like something out of a western. It is a small town set in arid mountainous landscape. It is rumoured that Butch Cassidy was finally captured and killed here after fleeing the US. I have a lot of blogging to catch up on as we are now back from the 4 day tour we took from Tupiza so instead of boring you all with minute by minute account of our days I will summarise high, low and funny points as best possible. In Tupiza we stayed in Hostel Mitru which w...

So Potosi summed up in three words ... not.enough.oxygen!! :-)! This is the highest city in the world at over 4km in the mountains. The taxi from Sucre took approximately 3 hours and our driver was careful and friendly, although he did play the same four Bolivian songs on repeat for the whole four hours! I was humming along by the end. The scenery on the trip was pretty amazing arid dry mountains littered with cactuses and lamas. Once we arrived in Potosi we s...

Sucre was one of my favourite towns on the trip so far. We arrived by plane on Sunday morning. Our plane had been delayed by an hour due to bad weather in Sucre early in the morning. The landing was quite amusing, we didn't descend very far into the airport as Sucre is 2.8km up in the mountains. The air was fresh and the sun was shining when we stepped off the plane into the tiny airport. We made out way to the hotel which was made a little tricky because there ...

This blog includes the border crossing in Corumba as well as our time in Santa Cruz. The first leg of our journey to the Bolivian/Brazil border involved a 3 hour mini van journey to a bus stop where we caught a 2 hour bus to the Brazilian side of Corumba. We had concerns about crossing the border after reading online that you can queue for hours, they can insist on payment (basically a bribe) and they sometimes randomly close the immigration office. When we arri...

This was a short sweet visit to Bonito. We arrived, rather sleepy (this was after the horse riding and snoring incident), after a 3 hour mini bus journey from Pantanal, to our Pousada in Bonito and checked in. We needed to book a tour of the natural spring and river for the next day so with some broken Spanish and a few phone calls to an English speaking guy we managed to arrange this whilst being eaten alive by Mosquitos on the hotel terrace! After checking o...