The bus to Cochabamba was horrible. The bus stank, it was stuffy and hot, and for some strange reason no one else on the bus seemed to notice. There were 2 tiny pop out windows but they were only ever open for 30 seconds before someone would close them. We stopped once at a rest stop which smelled so horribly of urine (more so outside and in the eating area than in the actual toilet) that we couldn't decide if waiting on or off the bus was worse. Getting off in C...

Back in La Paz and this time we were staying closer to the downtown area at a hostel called the Adventure Brew. The lure of a free beer each day was very tempting. So after we arrived we high-tailed it straight to the bar, but unfortunately the free beer wasn't available until 8pm. We bought one anyway and drank over some internet time. When 8 rolled around we went to collect our free beer and have dinner, which was in the bar of the hostel's other location a fe...

T'was a week before Christmas and we were looking forward to staying somewhere nice for an entire week! Coroico seemed like it would be a nice place, and we had heard great things about the hostel Sol y Luna, hidden away in beautiful gardens just outside of town. When we arrived we were shown to our cabaña, a few minutes walk from the main house up the hill and through the gardens. It had a big glass window overlooking the valley and mountains around us, a ham...

El Camino de la Muerte, The World's Most Dangerous Road, The World's Deadliest Road, The Death Road. Whatever name you prefer they all conjure the same thoughts and suggest the same conclusion. Namely, plunging to your death from a narrow, rocky, bumpy dirt road down a sheer vertical cliff to the valley a few hundred metres below (Wikipedia says 600 metres!). The Death Road was once a main road between La Paz and the town of Coroico. It featured on a few TV show...

La Paz, the highest major city in the world, actually sits in a valley surrounded by snow capped mountains and big cliffs. We arrived fairly late in the evening to one of the fanciest hotels we have stayed in on this trip, a little away from the city centre in the fancy Sopocachi district. They had a cheap room cause it had no windows, but it was still lovely! We met the owner over the amazing breakfast buffet, a guy from the US now living here with his Bolivian...