20th-22ndJuly We were lucky to get onto a three day trek around the Cordilleras and Managua crater with Condor trekkers, an eco-friendly organisation. The first two days we were with a big group and we hiked down the 'inca trail' which was a pleasant walk, not too steep and some great views. We arrived at a small waterfall where we had a vegetarian lunch (yep the company provides only vegetarian food, and actually both of us loved it all!) James went into the...

15th - 19th July Sucre is Bolivia's most beautiful city, it is a glorious ensemble of whitewashed buildings, friendly people and good eateries. It is renowned for being a good place to learn Spanish so we enrolled for four days at 'Me Gusta' Spanish School. James had 3 private lessons as he wasn't feeling great, Bolivian stomach disease! I had 4 group lesson (as I am so advance) with a really sweet American girl otherwise known as Trista and an Irish guy cal...

13th-15th July The journey to Potosi (highest city in SA, possibly the world) was interesting. The bus seemed nice on the outside but as it was a local bus the engine was not very powerful and when the majority of the journey is up hill and it the road is randomly paved or simply a mud path it takes a little while. Inside the bus I got sat on, my hair was pulled, I was nearly hit with a broom! James got serenaded in his left ear for the whole 5 hours by a sma...

9th-12th July Day One It was an early first morning for day one of a long but beautiful drive, we met our driver/guide, David and had to say goodbye to his well cute daughter and my new best friend. The German couple seemed really nice; Johanna, the girl spoke fluent Spanish and good English, her boyfriend Robin spoke great English, so between them James and I got a full translation from David. Our cook was on the drag so we had to go and collect her from ...

7th-8th July We are now in Tupiza and are off on a four day trek across South-western Bolivia in a jeep with two Germans-fingers crossed they are nice! I wanted to write about how amazing our journey was from Salta. As it was such an early bus both of us did fall asleep at some point during the trip but when we woke up it was like another world. There were huge mountains, giant rocks, massive cacti, wild llamas and cowboys. We even saw a tiny splattering ...