We arrived in Potosí just in time, about half an hour before it started raining big time, which meant our trudge up the hill to town wasn't miserably wet. Our hostel was actually an old hotel and pretty empty but not too far to walk to the Plaza de Armas. We made our way to the main square in the pouring rain, realising upon arriving there that sight seeing would be futile, instead finding ourselves enjoying coffee and cake in a café. Our budget doesn't allow ...

Given our late flight we didn't get into our hostel in Sucre until the early evening. It was a pretty cool place, with a bar and café area on the ground floor then 2 levels of rooms on top all around a central courtyard, plus a garden area out the back which had another bar under construction. That night was an all-you-can-eat Italian buffet which we partook in, managing to scoff about 3 plates each of pizza, pasta, salad and garlic bread each, making sure to ge...

After returning to Santa Cruz we only had one night before we would fly to Sucre, the constitutional capital of Bolivia. We had decided to fly, as the road to Sucre has a bad reputation and so do the bus drivers! Plus it wasn't much more expensive and it was going to save us about 10 hours of sitting around and doing nothing. We arrived at the airport early so we could grab some breakfast before our flight, scheduled for around 10am. Once through security we not...

It was touch and go as to whether we would be able to go to Refugio Los Volcanes, about an hour and a half south west of Santa Cruz. With all the recent rain part of the road (the old main highway between Santa Cruz and Sucre) had washed away and had been closed in the days prior, but we were lucky as they had started letting cars through. We had a driver that took us, our guide Nick and two other blokes from Tassie to the gate of Refugio Los Volcanoes, a priv...

Santa Cruz de la Sierra was quite a surprise. It is the most populated city of Bolivia and one of the fastest growing in the world, despite Sucre being the constitutionally declared capital and La Paz being the location of the Government. It was immediately evident that this is where the country's most prosperous live. We knew this before we saw the Porsche, Jaguar and Mercedes dealerships. We had heard Santa Cruz is hot, but when we arrived on a Friday evening...