Last time was a while ago, so this may be a bit hazy in places. That last day in Cochabamba, we did absolutely nothing, and went to bed early. We got up early the next morning and headed straight to La Paz. We met up with the others at the hostel and it was immediatly obvious that we were back on the gringo trail. In our whole time in La Paz we barely spoke a word of Spanish and met only travellers. We went out for dinner at a place called Oliver's travels w...

We stayed in Potosi for a couple of more days, that evening I cooked a stir fry which cost each of us around 30p, before the others arrived the next day. That day, me, Charles, Hannah and Lucy went to the natural hot springs, 20km outside of Potosi. We asked the driver of the bus to drop us off there and he just stopped somewhere, said something and pointed us in the right direction. We walked for 20 minutes uphill in the boiling heat and eventually found the ...

That night we got a bus from Tarija to Tupiza, which arrived late (at 5.30am) and in the freeeeeezing cold. A woman called Sylvia from the company I was doing my tour with met us there and walked me to the office of the company. I said bye to Gussy and Jenny and Sylvia gave me a bed to sleep in for a couple of hours. I did that, had a cold shower and then at 9 left for the tour. There were 6 of us in the jeep; me, a French guy called Gregoire, a Danish couple...

Right, so yet again I have to trace my thoughts back to a week ago. So here goes. That evening in Asuncion, the results of the election were announced and a new president was elected which saw the chage of power from the Colorado Party for the first time in 61 years. This was a huge occasion for the Paraguayans and the streets filled up and there was singing and chanting and celebrations well into the night. We watched for a few hours and then headed to a bar ...

So the next day was the day to get admin stuff sorted, we decided. Well, by admin stuff we just meant planning the next few days. We went to tourist information and found out about the boat up to Concepcion. It left the next morning at 7am and would take 30 hours. We decided to see if we could get 'camerotes' (cabins) before deciding. We went to the ticket office (just a man at a desk near the port) and he said they didn't have any, but then someone else tol...