Alright, well this blog entry should prove to be quite a bit shorter than the other one, since I only have 3 days to write about, but unfortunately, it won't be as exciting and positive as the other ones either.What we hopped would be one of the best parts of the trip, ended up being quite a let down as we spent three days driving through the Salt flats and the altiplano with a guide who could tell us nothing about anything.And for all of that we paid $90 (by bol...

Alright, well I'm back to playing catch up again, but I hope that this post will bring me up to where I am today, in Potosí. In my last post I mentioned we had to change around our plans and go to the jungle first, before continuing on with the rest of Bolivia, rather then doing the opposite. The day after we bought our tickets to jungle we boarded an 18 hour bus to Rurrenabaque (the town nearest to the jungle). Now, I had heard beforehand that the road ...

Well, the Peru portion of the trip is over (until our epic journey back home) and we're now well into the Bolivia portion. Now, given the fact that we're now in a different country, I feel it's only appropriate to start off with the boarder crossing. If you remember a few posts back, I described the border between Ecuador and Peru as nothing short of a joke?the type of thing where you have to go out of your way in order to enter the country legally. Luckily ...

Hey Guys, This is just a really quick update to let you know that there's been a change of plans. We were planning on going to Cochabamba today but there are road blocks all around La Paz (the miners and the bakers are striking). In response to these road blocks, passangers who want to leave La Paz are getting angry and blocking transport within the city. Apparently (as of yestarday) the only place we could go is....the Jungle. So instead of going to the Jun...