The 4 day tour took quite a lot out of us so we decided to relax and chill out for a few days in the highest city in the world (4070m). Potosi is a very old historic colonial city, the Spanish discovered silver in the local hill (Cerro Rico) and for a while it was Latin America?s largest and wealthiest city. It is very famous for its old mint and old silver mines. These mines are still in use today, mainly for lead and zinc- the levels of silver are lower after b...

Hello, We have finally found some internet access to tell you all about of 4 day and 3 night trip of the South West of Bolivia. So day one we head off in our jeep with Ruben our driver and Eufracia our international cook, very pleased that we had decided to just go with the four of us because we had plenty of leg room and space to spread out. We bumped our way up into the hills from Tupiza and this very much set the pace for the day, lots of travelling along ...

We have made it into Bolivia – the border crossing provided no problems, althou we did nearly miss the bus at Salta, as we were told to look at the wrong platform and town name.  We thought a bus going to La Quiaca would have that name on the front of it NOT Jujuy! We were immediately struck by how poor it is here compared to both Brazil and Argentina. The town we are staying in is called Tupiza, a really nice small town, we are only using it as a quic...

Today is our last day in Argentina - we are both going to be very sad to leave as it has been a fantastic country with loads of freindly people, brilliant food and drink and some fantastic scenery. We are off to Bolivia tomorrow which should be incredibly cheap from the reports we have had. Salta is a large town in the north of Argentina it is famous for empenadas, they are like mini cornish pasties, beef, chicken or cheese - absolutely delicious. We took a day...

Yesterday we were picked up before sunrise - we were headed deep into the high Andes - close to the Chilean border. We headed into the 'lower Andes' and met the Mendoza river which we followed through some fantastic scenery until we stopped in a village called Uspallata (Alt. 1750m) to get some warm trousers and boots, the day before we were there it was -23oC here, when we arrived it was about -8oC!! We carried on going higher and higher, following the vall...