Picked up by Bolivia Hop at 7 for the journey to Copacabana (yes I did sing the song once or twice!) Crawled through the La Paz traffic then the suburbs until finally reaching the countryside. We needed to cross an arm of the lake so the bus had to cross on a different ferry to us - about the same length as it was! Back on the bus for the last push to the lake and time for a sit down before the boat trip to the island. We stopped off at some ruins for those on a...

Catching a collectivo to Coroico then another to La Paz I left behind the humid jungle conditions and arrived in La Paz in the early evening in the rain - not an auspicious start. The hostel was OK and as Jen had said the beds were comfy but it was cold at night and not a particularly socialable hostel. I headed off for the obilgatory walking tour of downtown La Paz which was another good tour taking in the San Pedro prison (Location for the book Marching Powder...

The flight to La Paz was late but otherwise uneventful and I was picked up at the airport by Jesus and we journeyed to La Senda Verde via the new road that replaced Death Road. The scenery went from bleak mountains to lush jungle with many twists and turns and commentary from Jesus. Arriving at La Senda Verde was not very organised - Vicky the owner - gave me a brief introduction, I was shown to my room near quarantine and left to myself for the next few hours b...

I arrived in Sucre at my next hostel, Casa Verde after a fast but quite careful ride in a shared taxi from Potosi with Kira from my hostel. Casa Verde was gorgeous - as I was shown across a central court yard I went past the swimming pool (!) and into my room which was like a hotel or nice guest house with a sofa bed to sit on and tables to put things on! I had a quick stroll around and went for an early meal at the very quiet Red Lion pub. I will admit I was...

The main thing to do in Potosi is go down a silver mine - however it is very unsafe and you get to see people working in terrible conditions so I decided to explore the UNESCO heritage city for the morning instead. After taking pphotos from the hostal roof terrace I headed to the cathedral and went on a tour in Spanish - I was delighted to find I could understand 90% of what was said -Bolivian Spanish is so much cleared than Chilean or Argentinian. The view from...