I've arrived in Potosi! This city of 175,000 people is the world's highest city, at 4100m (13,300ft) above sea level. And boy, can you feel it! This morning was my last chance to perouse Sucre's wonderful market, and unfortunately the Saltena stores where I've been getting my breakfasts were closed. Plain bread for breakfast then... Then it was time to leave the 7 Patas hostel and head to the bus station. 7 Patas is a lovely little hostel, set in a colonial ma...

Today, I went to see some dinosaurs! Or rather, what they left behind. In 1994, employees at a local cement quarry uncovered a vertical face bearing roughly 5000 footprints of 8 different species of dinosaur. This was the largest collection of dinosaur footprints uncovered anywhere in the world. So obviously I had to check it out! In the end it was a bit disappointing. I got ripped off by a taxi driver on the way there (because I missed the tourist bus there be...

After two cups of black coffee and a disappointingly luke warm shower it was time for a pramble around Sucre. Sucre is much more relaxed than La Paz, and is a much smaller, posher place. The city is brimming with beautiful architecture. It is all neoclassical design, from the later Spanish colonial era, around the 1700s. Sucre has always been a centre of progressive thought in Bolivia, a politically active place thanks to it's population, and due to its wealth, ...

Well, that took a bit longer than I had planned! I got up at 7am yesterday, all bright and early, ready to go the airport. Check-in went smoothly, everything was going brilliantly for my Boliviana de Aviacion flight to Sucre. And then, it was delayed. Fair enough. Standard. But then it got delayed again. And again. And again. Once it got delayed to 1pm, they cancelled it. Luckily, the ensuing hours weren't too boring, thanks to La Paz airport wi-fi which I us...

Wow! That was one hell of a slog! Yesterday was a solid day, counting down the hours before the night bus relaxing in the hostel, chatting with some American and Dutch backpackers. Cuscopackers Hostel, Cusco is probably the best hostel I've ever been in, am definitely glad I stayed there. It was then time to head to Cusco's Terminal Terrestre - its main bus terminal. Its absolutely mental, a decripit old building lined on both sides by booths of various bus com...