In continuing the spirit of the blog we created over 2 years ago when we started our 7 month trip around the world trip we thought we should bring it alive again and write a short piece on our recent 2 week trip to Turkey (We promise it wont be too long!) So we started off by spending 3 nights in Istanbul and the first thing that struck us about Turkey was the friendliness of the people. As we arrived in at the airport trying to find the shuttle bus into the cen...

After 3.5 hours on a bus from La Paz, including a boat ride across a lake (where the bus went on a seperate boat to the passengers!) we arrived in Copacabana on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca. At the same altitute as La Paz, it was still still hard to breathe here. However the scenary around us was breathtaking as we passed hills which had layered rock formations inclining upwards built during inca times. We drove around Lake Titicaca (the largest navigable l...

Coroico is a small village situated in an area of Bolivia called the Yungas 3 hours north of La Paz. It is surrounded by mountains and sits at about 1,700m above sea level. The lower altitude was a welcome relief from the much higher altitude of La Paz. The journey there was stunning with huge mountains all around us and waterfalls descending from above. Despite the clouds being extremely low (and blocking some of the view) it was still a beautiful landscape to w...

We decided to head for the Jungle and booked a tour out of La Paz to the Madidi National Park. Rurrenbaque (the town which was the base for exploring Madidi) was about a 35 minute bus ride away or 18 hours (in good conditions) by bus- we opted for the plane! After a delay at the airport due to intense rainfall we finally boarded the 15 seater plane(!) and flew to Rurre (as the locals call it). Unfortunately, the journey wasnt finished there as we had another 3 ho...

After 17 hours of bus overnight from La Serena in a ´Cama´bus (this is where the seats almost become beds!) we arrived in Calama, the biggest town in the Atacama which serves the local mining copmmunity. We needed to change buses here to head to San Pedro where we would be spending our next 3 days before entering into Bolivia. A couple of hours later, after having realised there was more than one bus company which serviced Calama-San Pedro (it was the other sid...