Hi everybody! Hope you are all doing well. We are finally getting some much needed down time here in Cochabamba. We have been staying with some friends here for the past few days - Marcela, Jim, their 2 year old son Daniel, and Bubbles the rabbit. It has been great staying in a home again, as we haven't had that since Santiago. They have been incredibly kind to us and it is so hard to leave! (We were planning to leave yesterday, but now we are staying until...

It is April 11th, we are in Sucre, but in an hours time, we will catch an overnight bus to Cochabamba. We arrived in Sucre two days ago from Uyuni. As mentioned in our last blog, Sucre is the Paris of South America. Dating back over 400 years, Sucre was created as a home for the rich owners of mines in nearby Potosi. While Potosi is located at 4100m in a harsh climate (very hot in the day, very cold at night), Sucre is located 200 km west at an altitude of 27...

Hello everyone. It is April 9th and we have just finished a three night / four day Jeep tour of the Bolivian Salt Flats and surrounding area. We are currently in Uyuni, having a bit of a break before our bus to Sucre. Our Salt Flat tour started in Tupiza on April 5th - we booked it through a tour company that was located in the main floor of our hotel. How convenient! At 9am we piled into a jeep with 3 other girls (lucky Braden), our cook, and our guide/driv...