We set off from La Paz with an early morning bus to Copacabana which is the main Bolivian town on the shore of Lake Titicaca. Unfortunately our journey made was a bit uncomfortable due to me having a dodgy stomach and Helen feeding me pills and holding the sick bag ready just in case. We eventually made it without evening up the sick scores.... On arrival I felt much worse though and went straight to bed. This was to be a common theme in our time here as both he...

After a long, and very uncomfortable journey we arrived in La Paz. As per usual we got off the bus to collect our bags from the luggage compartment underneath only to find a guy had been sleeping in there. Very bizarre! We spent three fairly chilled out days in La Paz recovering from our recent trip, avoiding the rain and getting used to doing stuff at high altitude (the salt flat tour had been easier to adjust to as we were driven around most of the time). La P...

The next part of our trip is something we'd both been looking forward to - a 3 day, 2 night trip from San Pedro, Chile to Uyuni, Bolivia, taking in the sights of the Bolivian high plains and infamous salt flats as we went. We spent 3 days travelling in a convoy of 4x4 vehicles across bumpy terrain. I found it amazing that the guides knew where to go as, quite frankly, there was nothing to give any clues as to where we should turn apart from the occasional tyre t...