****Apologies in advance for this post - It is still very much a draft entry, but as we post this we have arrived home and probably won't ever get around to tidying it up in the near future. It is a shame because it is about the best place we visited on our entire trip. Feel free to skip it if you like. One day we might come back to it..but it's doubtful now we are home....**** Right now as we write this paragraph it is about ten thirty in the morning and we a...

Sucre After an overnight stop in a dodgy hotel in Uyuni we said our goodbyes to Will and Louise, we've shared some great times over the last few weeks and its a shame that they have a different route to us from here, hopefully there will be a reunion in the UK in a few months. Next stop for us though was Sucre. Another one of those "we'll go for a week and stop for three type places". Sucre is the capital of Bolivia, though all the government buildings an...

San pedro and the Salt flats Our next stop in the long skinny country of Chile was San Pedro de Atacama. To get there, we had to take a 30 hour bus ride from Santiago with no stops or breaks, but at least we got fed. Kind of. Chilean food on a bus consists of a dry piece of ham or, an equally dry piece of cheese, never both, on stale bread with no butter. Fortunately, for us we were sat next to some French lads who carried their very own bottle of mayonaise tha...