We pulled into La Paz for the second time but this time instead of heading to a beautiful 5-star hotel in a direct drop off bus, we put our backpacks on our back and hiked it for a couple kilometres to find our hostel. Turns out it was quite a nice hostel with a great rooftop bar to hang out in. We spent the first afternoon here on the internet and discovered that there was actually a microbrewery at the hostel. We took advantage of this and enjoyed really ni...

Leaving Arequipa turned out to be the start of 'The trip from Hell #2'. Firstly we woke up early to find that the water had been cut off in our hostel so we were unable to have a fresh start to our 2-day journey ahead. We left ourselves just enough time to pay our bill and catch a taxi to the bus station. Little did we realise that we didn't have enough cash on us to pay for the bill (rookie error...). I had to race out to try and find the closest ATM which t...

We left Huacachina aboard a 12 hour bus heading to Arequipa, Peru's second biggest city. It was a beautiful and scenic ride but thats not to say that it didn't scare the hell out of us! We drove along the southern coastline of Peru curving around the tall headlands which had sheer drops into the rocks below and crazy ocean. Sitting atop the 2nd floor of a double decker bus we looked a lot closer to the edge than we possibly were but we were close to telling t...

La Paz (meaning "peace") is set in a huge valley and as we rode down into it we stopped and got a beautiful view of the city nestled in between the mountains. It looked so peaceful from up there. That was to change... We pulled into the streets of the city on our bus, realising that there were no rules here. Central and South America doesn't have too many forceable road rules so we are kind of used to it. Although this is so, La Paz succeeded in scaring us a...

Waking up and freaking out massively as we had slept through the alarm, we threw our belongings into our backpacks, flew through reception to pay and hailed the first taxi, not even bothering to barter the price first and headed to Steve and Charm's hotel. There we were met by Steve and Charm also running a little late (which made us feel a little better!) and caught our ride to the train station. Waiting for us at the station was the most luxurious train we...