after having got very little sleep on the overnight bus to la paz, i had finally dozed off when i got woken up by a deafening racket of car horns outside. didnt really help that the man next to me considerately opened the window in order to get a better look, thereby waking up the entire bus as well. turned out we were stuck in the gridlocked la paz rush hour traffic, and rather than waiting patiently everyone had decided that leaning on their horns and shouting ...

after about a week of constantly travelling, speaking spanish and not lashing (much) at all, sucre was a perfect place to chill out for a couple of days with a few beers and get some sleep. its a really nice city - nothing like other bolivian cities, loads of clean white colonial buildings with nice squares and nice trees and other nice stuff. its not too high up either so no altidude effects and not freezing cold at night, perfect. also met two new mates - jess ...

havnt really updated this for ages have i, probably going to struggle to remember anything so might not be very interesting..... sooo went to potosi from uyuni with ayelen and clara, bus journeys are quite different in bolivia to argentina and chile - instead of air conditioning and reclining seats you get squeezed in next to lots of big fat bolivian women wearing about 10 different multicoloured dresses and bowler hats, who are usually eating chicken and being q...

uyuni is the main departure point for the salar de uyuni, which is the biggest (and therefore best) salt flat in the world. its also the highest, think we were up to about 3600m now so spent quite a lot of time panting when trying to walk up stairs/do anything. the town of uyuni is a bit of a dump though, it was like a ghost town when we arrived and nothing was open after about 10pm, so had a bit of a mare trying to find anything to eat when we arrived. luckily m...

IN. bolivia is really good, having an awesome time so far. sooo much cheaper than argentina, been paying less then 2 pounds a night for hostels, think the record so far is about 1.30! so lee and i turned up in tupiza after a really long day of travelling, both really tired and with massive headaches due to dehydration and altitude. probably not helped by the beer i had at the train station either. also hadnt really eaten anything all day except a stale bread roll...