Copacabana / Lake Titicaca After paying over the odds for a private mini bus from La Paz due to more Bolivian road strikes, we arrived in the town of Copacabana. Situated on the border of Bolivia and Peru the town overlooks the deep blue waters of Lake Titicaca, the worlds highest lake. Copacabana was for centuries the site of religious pilgrimages and still today the most Catholic pilgrimage in Bolivia. It is also the stopping-off place to visit Titicaca's sacr...

Rurranbeque and the pampas We flew to Rurranbeque in a very small jet which seated about 20 people. As we descended into the amazon basin we managed to get a great birds eye view of the scenery ahead of us. Rurranbeque is a small town on the banks of the River Beni in the Bolivian Amazon Basin. We booked our 3 day Pampas tour to leave the next day and chilled for the rest of the afternoon in the magical jungle town. An early start, we set off in our 4x4s down ...

La Paz We arrived in what we had been told was the most dangerous place in all our travels so we kept our wits about us and our passports/credit cards/phones closely guarded. As it turned out the Bolivian people we encountered were very kind and pleasant people. We stayed in Loki hostel, a converted hotel in the centre of the crater that is La Paz. From the 7th floor sky bar we had panoramic views across the sprawling city. Our first excursion was the red cap...

Sucre We left potosi at 5 in the morning as there was trouble on the road. Bolivia is renowned for using any excuse under the sun to form a strike. The most preferred form of strike is the road block. This particular road block was initiated by the haulage company working for a cement factory. They were going to lose out on business if the company moved north to Santa Cruz. So a 3 km stretch of road between Potosi and Sucre was blocked with all their haulage su...

Potosi Luckily, we managed to hop on a bus to Potosi straight after finishing the salt flat tour in Uyuni. Tired and exhausted, we travelled 3 hours north through more spectacular mountainous scenery, reaching the highest city in the world at 4100m above sea level. Potosi is famous for its silver mines which were discovered in 1545. The famous cone shaped Cerro Rico (rich mountain) rises high above the remote city with thousands of entrances to mines deep under...