From Potosi, we headed to the desert Town of Uyuni from which we would be begini our tour of the salt flats. The Bus journey there was an 'experience' in itself. It was 8 hours in searing heat in a pile of junk with windows that you would need the strength of Samson to open. The bus had 25 seats but the Bolivian bus driver decided that 40 people would be accomodated. It was unbelievable, locals just kept getting on - one or two came prepared and brought a footsto...

Sucre and Potosi After boarding the oldest 737 in the world we flew from La Paz to Sucre. I did my best to ignore the bald tires and faded looking paint and the longest and slowest take off ever and hoped we touched down ok! Everything went to plan thankfully and we arrived without a hitch and made for our hotel. Sucre is a beautiful little colonial city which is the judicial capital of bolivia. Well it was until a week ago when the constitution was amended t...

The next day we headed back to Cuzco for a free day and then we moved on to Puno, the gateway to Lake Titticaca. On the way we passed through Juliaca, unofficially Peru's dirtiest town - hideous place, should have taken a photo. Early the next morning we took tuk tuks to the boat where we had a days cruise on the Lake. We visited a community that live on 'floating islands' made enitrely out of reeds - absolutely crazy environment to live in and about as far remov...