Camisaraki! ("Hi, how are you?" in Aymara) We got to Puno and the place was buzzing, it was the celebration of the cities 240 year anniversary. In the centre there was a carnival in the streets, people were dressed up in traditional costumes, dancing down the parade route, their music is interesting but repetitive. After more wondering around, we found the best bakery ever! in the evening we went out for dinner and to Kim´s disgust Tom ordered a whole...

Hi Folks Can´t believe we have been away for 7 weeks already! Time is flying by! In La Paz at the moment, arrived Friday evening. On Saturday most of the city was closed due to the national holiday so we ended up walking down the street market which was like a big bizzare, selling all sorts of foods and produce. We also went to another handicraft market and Kim bought more stuff (Tom said he is not going to another South American handicraft market on this tri...

Hi Everyone, hope all is well? On Monday we left Potosi to head to Sucre. We took a taxi as it was only a two and a half hour journey and public buses in Bolivia are terrible. Sucre is the official capital of Bolivia but only has a population of 240,000 therefore the city still has a lot of colonial history, lots of cobbled streets and old buildings. When we got there we checked into our hotel and ended up being upgraded for the first night as they had double bo...

Hi Folks Yesterday we left Uyuni and had a very interesting bus journey on the way here to Potosi. 4 hours into the bumpy journey we had to get off as the road was washed away. The bus managed to make it through the stream but we had to jump across two ditches to get across. We arrived yesterday evening and went out for some nice food. This morning we went for a tour of the mines, oh my god what an eye opener! even though it´s a Sunday we still saw men in the...

O MY GOD! Back to cilvilation! We have just arrived in Uyuni after three days of nothing but dust and sand - isolated is an understatement! Wednesday we arrived at one of the Chile/Bolivia border crossing which is more than 5000 metres above sea level, which meant exercise equals gasping for breath! We transfered all of our stuff into the cramped Land Cruisers - our transportation for the next few days. The Scenery was amazing and exactly what we imagined, a bi...