It is no secret that this part of the world is pretty high up. I never expected to have a problem with the altitude, but it appeared I did. I couldn't even whistle half the time due to the altitude. I was constantly out of breath, and I am a fairly fit person (well I was 7 months ago anyway). I must have eaten something rather dodgy during my time in La Paz as from 3am to around 10am, the toilet was my home. I must have woken the others up in my dorm from constan...

Whilst in San Pedro and close to the Bolivian boarder, it was quite logical to take a break from my bus tour around the north of Chile, and take the popular Salar de Uyuni tour. Day 1 - We were on the bus ready to go to the Bolivian border, and some 18 year old from Eaton was telling us how we may be alittle longer at the boarder than we usually would be, as only 3 days ago he bribed the officer to get out of Bolivia without a passport, but now he had to bribe t...