First stop in Peru was across lake Titicaca in the town of Puno. Only a very short stop there of one day to visit the floating islands. The Peruvian side of the lake is smaller and also much shallower than in Bolivia, sometimes just 10m deep. Interesting make up of a few hundred families that literally live on floating islands made up of compressed mud, hay and other materials! More of a tourist destination now but the communities do still live and work on the i...

Our last stop in Bolivia was a little town called Copacabana on the banks of lake Titicaca. The main purpose of the visit was a short stay on the biggest island in the lake called Isle Del Sol, accessible from Copacabana. The lake was absolutely phenomenal in size, from one shore you couldn't even see the other side in most places. The lake (although not the biggest) was one of the highest land locked lakes in the world and in the middle of the Andes mountain ra...

Our trip to La Paz was split into 3 parts. We spent the first weekend in the city, staying at Loci hostel, then the middle just outside the city in the Lunar Valley, and finally back in the city at Wild Rover hostel for another weekend! La Paz isn't a very picturesque city, built within a valley the La Paz section is in the valley floor with 2 sprawling favela type cities on each of the surrounding hillsides. We did a few tourist activities whist in the city, ...

Just wanting to see the North of Chile the first stop was a small town called San Pedro. With only about 3000 people living there it was a tiny town that seemed like something out of the Wild West! Most people go for desert tours and astronomy. The area near San Pedro has near zero humidity and crystal clear skies, some spots haven't had any rain for about 400 years! The first night we went to a local astronomer to learn about the universe and astronomy done fr...

We arrived at Uyuni from the Potosi mining town set for a 4x4 jeep tour to the salt flats and deserts of southern Bolivia. We had a decent group with us, all meeting in Sucre plus an ex-German airforce officer we met in Potosi; later he would become known as the Terminator...! First day we stocked up on the wine for the night in the desert and set off! 'Train graveyard' first, where all the old steam trains from the Potosi mines were left to rust... For lunch we...