Hi peeps Hope you are all fine and dandy and taking extra special care of yourselves - can't believe Bolivia feels safer than England and London at the moment. Have had an absolutely best time in Bolivia and loved every minute of it. Its definitely my favourite country on my trip so far, yes even pushing lovely Guatemala into second place. Here's an update of my month in Bolivia... First off, Lake Titicaca - the world's highest navigable lake in the world. Spent one day in Puno on the Peru side of the lake, where I visited the Uros Islands which are artificial islands made entirely of layers of reeds. The islands are really small with typically only a dozen families living together on an island. But we also visited a very small island with only four families because they had recently fallen out with their neighbours so to settle the dispute they simply carved the island in half and split the community - very bizarre! After Puno, I visited Copacabana on the Bolivian side of the lake. Copacabana is so much nicer than Puno, with a real small time holiday resort feel, complete with pedloes and warm sunshine - hurrah - flipflop time again! From here I trekked to Yampupata along the, as the lonely planet claims, 'obvious Inca path', hmmm - perhaps it was obvious during the Inca times, cos Sue and I ended up hacking through the undergrowth to find it! Both the trek to the Isla del Sol and the island itself are really pretty - although no pics to show you as didn't have a camera at that point - sob, sob! Spent the next few days in La Paz, sampling the nightlife, stocking up on hats and scarves, buying a camera from the dodgy black market, and sampling surprisingly excellent sushi - yummy! From La Paz I decided to give cycling another chance and take on the world's most dangerous road from La Paz to Coroico which plunges 3000m in 80km and is so called because it sees the most fatalities annually. The ride was pretty thrilling, and the scenery awesome, but it was definitely more a case of survival than fun for me! Unfortunately the scariest part of the day was not the bike ride, but the return trip. The lonely planet states that "travelling at night (on the road) is a death wish", so it was pretty terrifying to be shunted off the road and into a ditch by a giant lorry coming the other way down the road. Thankfully most of our group were young and male (always a good thing!), and after two hours they managed to pull the minibus free from the ditch. In the meantime it had become super dark, thick mist and raining - perfect conditions for the death road - not! In turn, our minibus had created an almighty backlog of angry lorry drivers, which meant that we now had to drive rubix cube style shunting backwards and forwards to get past the lorries. Thankfully we all decided to walk up the road rather than in the minibus, which although dangerous, seemed a lot safer than taking our chances with a minibus driver who had never driven on the road before! After the shocking death road experience, I decided it was time for some R n' R in a warmer climate so off to the jungle I flew - I love flashpacking! and the flight was well worth the $$$ as the views from the 12 seater plane were amazing - snow capped mountains, followed by meandering rivers through the jungle - all this in just 50mins - incredible. Spent 3 days in the Pampas and 2 days in the Amazon jungle, both of which were amazing experiences. In the Pampas, we saw heaps of alligators, fed monkeys, fished for piranhas and saw lots of pink river dolphin. I loved every minute of it, although was none too pleased to take home half the boggy wetlands in my leaky boot, in the futile search for anacondas - ohh well, at least the lovely man at our camp washed my dirty socks for me - tee hee hee! The jungle experience was also amazing, with a totally different environment to the Pampas wetlands. Here, we trekked and hacked our way through the tropical jungle, looking for the stinkiest wild pigs. We were lucky to see about 100 pigs charging through the jungle in search of food. It was actually quite scary as they sound like they are butchering humans in a horror movie - grotesque stuff! Also saw three different types of monkeys, including some rival howler monkeys that were challenging each other to a fight - very cool. After the lovely warmth of the jungle the cold of the salt flats was horrible. Most days were -5 and nights -20 - far too cold for me! Made the best use of every jumper I own - wearing 3 most days and adding thermals at night - looking good!! Even with the cold, the salt flats were awesome, definitely one of the highlights of my entire trip. The Salar de Uyuni was an amazing four day adventure, seeing flamingos, volcanoes, beautiful lagunas and even rock trees! The scenery was incredible and almost unbelievable. The last day was the best as we arrived at the salt flats before sunrise, so were able to climb to the top of Fish Island and see the full moon (great timing) on one side of the island and the sunrise on the other - awesome, awesome, awesome!. I loved it. Phew! Have just left Sucre, where I ate my own weight in delicious 'chocolates para ti', and visited some cool dinosaur tracks. Am now in Santa Cruz, where every young girl has 2 black eyes and their nose in plaster - it really is the plastic surgery capital of S.America! Tomorrow I take the 'death train' to Brazil. Am sad to leave Bolivia as met some really lovely and fun peeps here - but the Brazilian sunshine is calling me! If you have time, check out my pics of Bolivia - (there are two folders for Bolivia this time). Love you all and if you ever get the chance - go to Bolivia! Lindsxxx