The salt flats in Bolivia were one of the main things I wanted to do in South America and they were AMAZING!! We took a 10 hour bus from La Paz along with the boys and arrived into Uyuni on Saturday evening. The next day was election day in Bolivia so we couldnt start a tour until the Monday. The whole town was dead on the Sunday, all around was just tourists milling around with nothing to do, it was quite funny to see! We went to 2 different tour companies and...

After the jungle me, Charlotte and Becky headed to Copacabana at Lake Titicaca to then get a boat accross to the Isla del Sol which is an island in the Southern part of the lake. It was a relatively short bus journey and took about 3 hours to get there from La Paz, with a short ferry ride accross the lake. We met Siobhan and Peter on the bus who are a couple who were staying in the same hostel as us in La Paz. Once we got to Copacabana we had about an hour to ha...

From La Paz we headed up to Rurrenabaque to do a 2 night/3 day Jungle/Pampass tour. We decided to catch the local bus up there and then book a tour when we arrived as its cheaper than booking the whole thing from La Paz. The bus journey took about 18 hours and was possibly the scariest thing I have ever done! The roads there are on the edge of massive cliff tops, they have no barriers and most of it is dirt/gravel, not even a proper road! At one point all the tr...

Next stop after Rio was La Paz in Bolivia to meet up with the girls. I cheated somewhat for South America and decided to fly as the distance was so massive it would have taken me 5 days by bus!! I had 4 hours changeover in Sao Paulo so I´m outside reading my book when this guy starts to try talking to me..he looks of African origin so at first I´m a bit wary but then he tells me he`s from LA and he`s here on business and his bus is late and he has a laptop cas...