After an all day bus we arrived in Uyuni without a tour booked and plans to leave the following day. To make things more complicated the tour agencies all shut within an hour of our arrival and if we didn't get out the next day we would be stuck for two more days in Uyuni as it was a public holiday and no tours were departing. We found ourselves a hostel where we all dumped our bags before splitting off in to three couples to try and shop around as best we coul...

The journey to Sucre was not straight forward at all. The bus from La Paz was driving via a mining town called Potosi to finish in Sucre. Unfortunately for us at about 4am in the morning when everyone was asleep the bus stopped without any reason being given. Sue woke up and woke me up, out the window we could see people walking passed our bus. I didn't think much of it and so ignored it for a little while. About 30 minutes later a lot of the locals on our bus ...

Once we had settled in tour room we opened the lonely planet again to see what food and drink options we had nearby, the most obvious choice was a pub called 'Oliver's Travels' which quite unashamedly described itself as an English style pub which showed football. This was perfect for me as I was hoping to catch the Tottenham game the next morning. We wandered around for a short while and eventually found the pub after I worked out which way round to hold the m...

We arrived in to Copacabana after crossing the border from Peru to Bolivia. Once across the border it was a short journey along the shoreline of Lake Titicaca until we arrived in Copacabana. On arrival in Copacabana we were immediately struck by how touristy it was. Everything in the town is geared towards extracting money from tourist visiting Lake Titicaca and in particular Isla Del Sol. We went to the tourist office for a map and a recommendation of where to...