So, we are returned from our 4 day Tupiza-Uyuni trip and what an amazing trip it was! We had a few problems getting there. It appears that for every good bus journey in Bolivia you must suffer a bad one - and this one was pretty bad. We left just 10 minutes late from Sucre on our 'semi-cama' bus - supposedly with large reclining seats and a modicum of comfort but 'semi-cama' seems to means something different here as we were just on a normal bus, who knows what...

So, we finally managed to escape from La Paz and experience a different part of Bolivia. Joe managed to catch the Flu at some point between Peru and Bolivia so we spent an unplanned extra couple of days in La Paz - with Joe lying in bed feeling sorry for herself and Mads out and about exploring the city a bit more. On Friday night we got ourselves onto a bus down to Sucre - the experience was far less traumatic than the journey out to Copacabana and we arrived...

The Bolivians are revolting! Ok, so maybe not 'revolting', but 'protesting' doesn't sound quite as dramatic! We were warned that the Bolivians liked a good protest and this had a habit of disrupting the best-laid plans, and 4 days into Bolivia we have experienced this already. The flight here, amazingly, went without hitch - Madeleine was convinced that the travel agent had not actually booked our flight as it took them an hour and a half of confused looks, and...