Saturday 030606 Santa Cruz to Sucre This is the capital of Bolivia, although it is not the home of parliament or the commercial centre. It is still the home of the justice system. This is also the highest Capital City in the world at 2700 plus mtrs. Fee felt the effects immediately of this altitude and suffered headaches for a good couple of days. This is also when the nose bleeds started....... Our first meal was a lovely lunch at the joy ride café, we h...

Saturday 270506 Ponta Pora to Bonito We finally woke the Brazilian border control staff who took an age to process us. We took our private minibuses to Bonito along a dirt road that reminded us of Route 40 in Chile and Argentina. Huge number of large termite mounds. We passed a large no of shacks built by homeless people who were waiting to be rehoused by the government. We stopped at a place along the road for lunch and had a plate of local food, then cont...

Thursday 25/05/06 Paraguay We took the overnight bus from Foz de Iguazu. We went directly to the Brazilian border control and then to Paraguayan control. We settled down for our journey and arrived early 5am. We went straight to bed and slept until 8am. We wandered around the capital, it had the most amazing crumbling buildings, and in the afternoon we had a guided tour around the city. Paraguay is incredibly poor, but we really liked the feel of it and wer...

Tuesday 230506 Foz de Iguazu Slept badly on the bus but arrived at 730am to our hotel. We had a quick breakfast and got back into the minibus for a visit to the Itaipu Hydroelectric plant. The largest in the world when it was built. It is currently being updated with two new turbines which will increase the electric generation to exceed that of the new dam at the Three Gorges in China. Iguazu is located on the Borders of Brazil, Argentina & Paraguay. The I...

Tuesday 230506 Foz de Iguazu Slept badly on the overnight bus which arrived at 730am at our hotel. We had a quick breakfast and got back into the minibus for a visit to the Itaipu Hydroelectric plant. The largest in the world when it was built. It is currently being updated with two new turbines which will increase the electric generation to exceed that of the new dam at the Three Gorges in China. Iguazu is located on the Borders of Brazil, Argentina and Para...