Our last stop in Bolivia was the small town of Uyuni which is the base to see the salt flats. We decided to do a two day tour of the area. The tour operators have quite a production process going in Uyuni, and like many in the region, will tell you anything if it means they think you'll buy whatever they're selling. All of the tourists usually arrive in the town in the morning after travelling to Uyuni via overnight bus. Each tourist visits a few operators to...

La Paz - how do we put this softly - let's just say we caught the first bus out of the place. We arrived in the capital city late at night which wasn't a good start as we had to walk down smelly, dirty back streets filled with sleazy bars and drunken locals. We woke in the morning to find not a lot had changed with the rise of the sun and quickly decided to book the overnight bus onwards. While we were there we had just enough time to do half a walking tour of th...

Copacabana is right on the shore of the well-known lake, Lake Titicaca, and that was where we entered Bolivia after a long overnight bus ride from Cusco. There wasn't so much to do in Copacabana itself, except walk up to the town view point at sunset, which is exactly what we did. The highlight of the area for us, and most visitors, was a day trip to the nearby island, Isla del Sol. The island turned out to be a step back in time, a place where locals live by ...