We arrived early evening after a fairly poor bus ride with a lake crossing thrown in and headed to our hostal, a pretty good but old hostal with cable tele and a roof terrace. We headed out for our first trucha (trout, kinda) experience in a lovely candlelit restaurant very SE Asian in decor. The meal was great but stupidly we asked for a caraff of tap water thinking, there is a nice big fresh water lake right there, the water will be fine to drink. The next mor...

Arriving in La Paz at the crack of dawn is a sight that will never be forgotten. It is set at 4,000m in a huge bowl like valley fringed with snow capped mountains and compacted with habitations verging on the vertical rim of the canyon. In the valley this city is bonkers, between the high risers the roads are filled with 1960´s US school style multi-coloured buses that struggle up the hills spluttering out toxic fumes. There are thousands of taxis and the traffi...

Potosi, the highest city of it´s size in the world (4,070m). It´s a charming place filled with colonial churches & narrow streets and was once famed for its silver mining; the majority of it owned by the Spanish and shipped back to Europe. Nevertheless they still mine there for scraps of silver today. We wondered the streets, still struggling with the altitude, checking out the markets where we came across a stall selling all sorts of puppies(ah soooo cut...

Arriving here really felt like you`re in the middle of no-where. Added to that there`s the high altitude. Uyuni is 3665m above sea level and headaches were a constant reminder of that. We booked on to a 3day tour of the salt flats and coloured lakes and along with an Ozzie girl, Jack, and a swedish couple Yonas and Virginia and a Yank, Megan, off we went.Now when back in England, going to the Salt Flats was going to be one of the main high lights of our trip. And...