Arriving into Mendoza we headed to the HI hostel we´d got out of the guide book as we didnt have any recommendations...which was a shame as its not a very good hostel! Our room is like a prison cell, the beds are tiny with really thin mattresses and we have a weird Columbian guy in our room!! Mendoza is known for its wineries so you can see why we came!! The first day we arrived we had a wander round and went for tea (bland tasting pesto spaghetti, disappointin...

After the salt flats tour we were dropped off at San Pedro in Chile where we were going to stay for a night and then get a bus to Mendoza in Argentina for some wine tasting. San Pedro is a really cute colonial town and it was nice to be in civilisation after Bolivia and the salt flats/desert! We ended up in a really cute hostel with the best bathrooms we`d been in the whole of South America! When you come from Bolivia where the toilets are disgusting and sometime...

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...