We arrived in La Paz early on Thursday morning after our overnight bus and after having to walk half an hour to the hostel because of the Independence Day parades which had brought the city centre to a near standstill, we had a well deserved best breakfast so far at Alexanders, which coincidently I realised Ballard and I had been 4 years ago! We then spent the afternoon wandering round the Witches Market buying little bits and bobs and trying to get the best pri...

With buses out to Sucre fully booked we arranged for a taxi to take us instead (at £4 each for a 2.5 hour journey, it was hardly breaking the bank!) and so we arrived in Sucre (the first deviation from the spreadsheet!) with enough time to head out for a brilliant birthday meal for Staff of mixed fondue followed by chocolate fondue for dessert, at a really nice place in town! All in all, Heath seemed pretty happy that she had had a birthday to remember! Sucre a...

And so we finally arrived in the worlds highest city, Potosi, late on Saturday night after what turned out to be a pretty hellish bus ride. Just walking around was hard work because of the altitude, but we managed to find a place to watch the World Cup final, albeit in a strange little Italian restaurant with the grumpiest, slowest kid waiting on! After collecting my winnings from our mini-sweepstake I finally managed to get to speak to Hutch and that was pretty ...

And so Wednesday was the start of the 4 day trip into the wilderness that is the salt flats of Bolivia, Salar de Uyuni. Although this was my second time of doing it I had been really looking forward to it. We had fallen pretty lucky in that the 4 of us plus Frank and Laura were able to go in one jeep and we managed to get a discount on the price. Whilst some of the trip was familiar to me from last time I had forgotten how unreal some of the scenery was, and al...

Finally! Nearly 2 days of pure travelling is over and has brought us to Tupiza in Bolivia. The first leg of the journey was 26 hours by bus to La Quiaca on the Argentine border. We stopped a few times at these random pockets of civilisation which punctuated the otherwise barren landscape, but other than that it was Spanish films, iPod and reading all the way and it went surprisingly quickly! We then crossed the border into Villazon on the Bolivian side and it b...