We had one false start getting to the salt flats in Uyuni - We arrived at the bus station at 8:30pm as we were told to only to find out that our bus had broken down and wouldn't be going to Uyuni that night. Somehow every single person travelling on the bus was told about this during the day except us and 2 British girls. We sat at the bus company office for ages while the 2 other girls got quite angry and upset with the staff, without realising that in this part...

We flew from Quito into La Paz which probably lost us a few backpacker points but neither of us could face that many hours in a bus. The flight started off a bit scary when Jolly was selected for a checked luggage search. We were taken out of the lounge, out to a little shed on the tarmac where my backpack was sitting there. A man dressed in an army uniform came over and proceeded to open and spend 10 mins going through my bag. He didn't find anything that he was...

The worlds most dangerous road (North Yungas Road) is a dirt road built on the side of a cliff in the 1930's to aid the transportation of coca leaves out of the jungle. At its height, someone died on this 30 km stretch of road every single day. The road isn't used by heavy traffic anymore and instead there are many companies in La Paz that take you down it on a bike. We decided to go with a company called Gravity, we had heard a lot of about them and we knew they...

From La Paz, Isla del Sol (Island of the sun) on Lake Titicaca is about a 3.5 hours bus trip away (including a small river crossing where the bus goes across on a barge and people go across on a ferry). To get to the Isla del Sol, its another 1.5 hours on the worlds slowest boat. Seriously, if we all got oars out I think we would have got there in half the time. It´s the highest attitude lake in the world and is so huge that it sits in both Peru and Bolivia. Onc...