Today we got up early and headed over to the airport to fly to La Paz. After our horrific ride over to Sucre we'd read up on driving in Bolivia - they have a terrible record for road safety, and the road from Sucre to La Paz is supposed to be treacherous - lots of windy roads and high cliff edges. We also read that many bus drivers do 12 hours straight each day with no other driver to take over like in other countries, and they all had a massive strike a couple of years ago when they were banned from drink driving, called the strike of the drunks. This hasn't deterred many and a lot of blogs advised people to feel free to demand their driver stop drinking.

We had decided flights were the way to go and therefore were flying to la Paz. Our taxi there was much safer, perhaps because his battered car screamed if he exceeded 50mph, and had another sellotape window.

After we arrived in La Paz we decided to see if it was possible to get a flight straight to Rurrenabaque (the Amazon rainforest) that day rather than go back and forth into La Paz. Flights were prohibitively expensive online, but when we landed Rob got a message from Mart, the guy from our Uyuni tour, saying he'd got very cheap flights from the military airline Tam. We got a taxi over to their terminal to see if they had any today, which they didn't, but we booked our return flight. Thankfully we'd asked our taxi driver to wait in case they had none today, so we then hurtled back to the original terminal and got the last two seats on a slightly more expensive flight to Rurrenabaque, leaving less than an hour later! It felt like being on the apprentice.

We were on a tiny plane that you could see into the cockpit, with only 19 seats for passengers! No messing with emergency procedures, it was very cool!

In Rurrenabaque we headed straight out to book our Jungle tour for the next day, then spent the night at the hostel with Mart and Maike enjoying a couple of beers, an epic steak BBQ and the pub quiz!