Arrived in Copiapo after an overnight bus from San Pedro. The bused in Chile are so efficient and in good shape its a nice change. Copiapo was a suprisingly large city with the customary plaze and probably the most afluent and commercial stop yet. Manages to watch the Champions League final (only place showing it was a hot dog restaurant!) better luck next time Lee. Another night bus to La Serena (means we dont have to pay for accomodation and we sleep on the...

What a cool little place. After our most extensive border checks yet we discovered that Emma had in fact smuggled a tangerine in...this is illegal...but we think we got away with it! San Pedro is a small town with dirt roads and tons of dogs, filled with trendy bars and restaurants and the bohemian set. Still cold but sunny in the day time we only drink (jeeze the price has gone up!!!) in bars with outside fire pits, why we dont have these in the UK I just don...

If Potosi was bllody freezing then Uyuni is something else. What an unusual place, set amist a desolute plain in the middle of nowhere, bleak, bleak, bleak. Once fueled by the steam industry now a shade away from a ghost town but for the tourists visiting the salt flats. The salt flats are amazing. The largest salt flats in the world mile after mile of white salt. We are in a group of 6 (great group) all piled into a 4x4 for our 3 day journey to Chile. Stop...

Well Potosi is bllody freezing! At 4500 officially the higest city in the world and I dont doubt that. The remains of the decedance this city experienced with the silver rush in 1545 are everywhere. Nowdays the silver is almost gone and the city is a shadow of its former self. Only really tin lead and a mixture of silver and lead left now, the miners work for 8 hours in the mine with only cocoa leaves and pure alcohol to keep them going. When the Spanish arr...

You must of wondered what's happened to us!!! Well Emma lost our memory card with about 300 of our photos (discovered it lost the day we were going to back it up!)and ever since we have been internet cafe phobic. We left La Paz with tales of hijacks at gun point! (Mum's, only putting this in now we have left Bolivia x x) Yes we met several travellers that had been kidnapped for 24 hours whilst they had their bank accounts cleaned out. Not a very nice experien...