The Worlds Most Dangerous Road was awesome.We got up at 6am, and met the group at a cafe in La Paz at 7.30. They took us to the top of the road, where they give you your bike and gear (and a bit of useful instruction). The first bit is bitumen for you to get used to your bike (and hopefully if something breaks it will happen here).You have to stop a couple of times- one for a drug check and 2 for a ridiculous tourist tax of 24 bolivianos for people on bikes. Then...

Hi Everyone Well, after Uyuni, we went to La Paz. La Paz is a crazy city with lots of beeping taxis and smog and people wanting to sell you things you don{t need.The bus ride was bumpy but non eventful- we travelled in comparative luxury, movies, food, blankets.The day we got there was Sunday, and it was also the day of an important election, so we were able to see lots of people marching around the city in traditional dress.We were pretty tired when we got ther...

Hi everyone. We are at Uyuni now, on the Altiplano in Bolivia. The height above sea level is around 3800m, and its pretty cold. Not to mention hot water is a rarity in showers. We got back from a 3 day tour yesterday, where we saw a salt flat 12000 square kilometres in size. Also we saw a volcano with smoke coming out, some flamingoes, and a hotel made of salt. It was freezing out there- colder than here even, all the lakes are iced over, and the guides had to...

Hi this is the entry for Samaipata, Bolivia. Well we got here from Santa Cruz via taxi. It sounds strange, because it takes 2 and a half hours, and costs the equivalent of $14 australian dollars total for 4 people to go. Imagine if 4 people got in a taxi in Aus and told him they wanted him to drive from Toowoomba to Brisbane and back for less than 4 dollars each. So we got here at midday, still travelling with Justin from the UK, and the first day we went to th...

Hi this is the entry for Santa Cruz. Well we did not do much here. We arrived on the death train from Brazil at about 8 am. The first bad decision we made was to walk instead of taking a taxi. A taxi would have cost 1 dollar each for us to get from the train station to the city centre. We didn{t have a map, and the streets are a circular formation, rather than a grid pattern, so we walked to far in the one direction. We eventually found ourselves on the dodgy Lo...