The arrival to La Paz was at 6.30 in the morning after a relatively smooth bus ride without any sleep once again. La Paz is the highest capital city in the world at 4030m asl and is built in a massive valley in the shadow of a huge snow-capped mountain called Huayna Potosi. We both got onto the bus with very sore stomachs (which by now was something we were used to having in Bolivia), but Rome was particularly bad and was in no condition to stay at one of the...

Part of the risk that we took, having gone for cheaper flights to Rurenabaque, was that our flight only arrived just after 9 o'clock and our Pampas tour left town at 9.30! This left us a very small gap to try get from the airport to the tour office. We touched down at 9 on the button and lept straight off to wait for our baggage from the plane. We took a 10min shuttle into town and arrived at the offices at 9.28am (Cutting it fine by anyone's standards). We met...

After a non-eventful trip to Tupiza we walked to our hostel at 4:00am by the light of the full moon. We made a plan to meet at the Tupiza tours headquarters to finalise the arrangements of out 4 day tour at midday after a well deserved rest. We met our English-speaking guide, Archie and he went through our itinerary for trip. We went for an Almeurzo lunch which is a set meal of a soup, a main dish, a dessert and a drink with Ted and Sarah afterwards to get to k...

After a nearly 30 hour journey from BA to Santiago to Iquique to Santa Cruz, we finally arrived in our 3rd country of the trip - Bolivia. Organising the visa we needed at the border was absolutely no hassle which we were both very relieved about - after all, it was 1:30am and the night before was spent in an airport so we both bombed. We caught a cab to the dingiest of hostels - the first room key they gave us opened into an unmade room and the second key open...