Hola,  Shelly writing today. After La Paz, our next stop was Copacabana, on the shores of Lake Titicaca.   This lake is massive, the biggest in South America, and is roughly half owned by Bolivia,  half by Peru.    I have no idea how they know exactly where Bolivia ends and Peru begins but I bet they have fishing disputes like Guernsey does with France... Arriving in Copacabana, the sun was shining,  the scenery was beautiful, the lake was all sparkly, ...

Potosi (altitude 4200m) After leaving Bolivia's Bangalore, we arrived in the world's highest city called Potosi. This city is where South America earned it's riches. As a colonised city of Spain, it made the Spanish very wealthy due to its mining of silver. It now mines silver, zinc, tin and copper. The town centre is full of lavish buildings that reflect its affluent past. Our hostel also had hot water and heating, so Shelly was ecstatic. Note from Shelly -...

Im writing this blog as we are sat in a bus stuck in a road block just outside of Uyuni, Bolivia. We are headed for Potosi, 4 hours away. From what we can understand, the road block has been created by a local in protest of his dad being imprisoned. He has placed rocks accross the road to stop lorries etc getting in and out of Uyuni. We are not sure why we cant just move the rocks out of the way, but we are leaving it to the locals on our bus to enter into...