It was another early start as we prepared to embark on a tour of once the world's biggest silver mine in once the world's wealthiest city. We got all geared up in overalls, helmets, head torches and bandanas and set off in a jeep to the miners market to buy some gifts for the miners. Gifts were items such as dynamite, soft drinks, cocoa leaves and alcohol. As there aren't any toilets down in the mines, the miners chew on cocoa leaves all day for energy so that th...

The free breakfast offered by the hostel was so good - apple and cinnamon porridge with fruit and yoghurt and I started the day in a great mood! We walked into the square and visited the Palace which is said to have a wedding-cake like decor and has murals on the walls depicting Bolivia's fight for independence. As nice as the actual building itself was the highlight was the views. We found ourselves walking up this rickety spiral staircase up to a rooftop platfo...

Emma's actual account of the day: We caught an early flight from Santa Cruz to Sucre on a tiny plane, and the views coming into land were absolutely incredible. The terrain is so so mountainous and we landed in between two mountains on a very narrow and short runway that is apparently used as the final test for pilots-to-be! It was exciting. Sucre, the capital of Bolivia, was much much colder than I everywhere else so far, crisp and fresh and really nice in the ...

We caught an early flight from Santa Cruz to Sucre; the flight was only half an hour on a tiny plane. The views were cool. When we arrived I said 'oh it's not actually that hot is it', liv agreed lol. Then we got in a taxi that I kept saying was 'old school' when really it was just old. The chair was made of plastic haha rofl. We took a wrong turn and the taxi had to drive round the block, it was mental. Our hostel was called beehive but I didn't spot even one be...

29th May:- The day was spent travelling from Rio to Santa Cruz on two flights. Upon arriving Santa Cruz airport it felt very South American all of a sudden, and we were greeted by the lovely owner of our hostel Fernando who drove us there. The hostel was so nice and genuinely looked like a huge European villa all light and open - and extremely clean with a massive fully equipped kitchen. We later found out that this hostel had only opened a couple of months ago...