La Paz, Uyuni & The Salt Lake Tour On our last day in La Paz (Monday) we went to the coca museum, museum of musical instruments and spent some time walking around seeing the town as it had stopped raining. We had accidentally spent the whole of the day before at Oliver's Travels. We had a roast lunch (as was Sunday, and it was v good), watched football and gradually aquired a group of friends as people joined us on the comfy sofas. On Monday night we d...

Dear All We are currently back in rainy La Paz having spent a couple of days in a nice small town Coroico, north of La Paz in The Yungas area of Bolivia. We travelled there by doing the 64k mountain bike ride down the world's most dangerous road which decends 3500m from above La Paz to Coroico. After we booked the bike ride it ocurred to me that I haven't been on a bike that wasn't stuck to the floor in a gym for a very long time. Although I'm sure the...

Hello We have now left Copacabana and are in La Paz. While we were in Copacabana we walked up a sacred hill and went to the sacred Isle de Sol. Copacabana is quite a religious place for religious people. It is the place to go to get your car blessed. People dress their cars and trucks up with ribbons and fake flower garlands, throw petals over them, take them to the cathedral and pour fake sacred champagne in the engine. There was a really good view of...

Hello Why is there a picture of a sand boarder for my postcards of Bolivia you may ask. The answer is that there aren't any pictures of Bolivia to choose from so I've chosen the only picture you can choose that isn't of another country. Anyway, here we are in Copacabana in Bolivia. We waved goodbye to Cuzco with its lovely restaurants, tat sellers and many gay bars (well, turns out the gay flag is the Cuzco flag the other way up, so there weren't a...