A road of deaths.....nice! Something i had been looking forward to do since the beggining of the trip was to mountain bike down death road. We arrived in La paz and at 3500m above sea level, it is the highest capital city in the world. it is also the first capital city i have visited in south america as rio isnt the capital of brazil, and i didnt go as far south as buenos aires in argentina. the city of la paz cowers in a narrow canyon gouged from the high altip...

Uyuni After a few long days of driving through rocky, dirty tracks which in no way cuold be classified as roads, with many people adjusting to the altitude by being sick into plastic bags we arrived in out first bolivian town. Our first hotel too which was very exciting, especially with the thought that we wouldnt have to do our truck, cooking,cleaning duties anymore!! I won a quiz on the bus on the way there, so i got a free pizza at the new hotel. Visited t...

Welcome to Bolivia!!!!!! Crossed over the bolivian boarder which was pretty eye opening, as we got to see the differences between Argentina to 3rd world Bolivia. The welcome sign was flaking and all the women were old, and hunched over with horribly, heavy weights on their backs. The person who stamped my passport was very friendly and happy and asked me how i was in Spanish which left me with a good first impression of the country. The women were dressed really...

The last night in Uyuni, i decided to go out and get hugely drunk. Ended up having another very scrummy pizza at minuteman pizza and laso polishing off an entire botl of red wine to myself. We then took ourselves to the llama bar near-by where i was treated to a large number of varoius cocktails. Some i am afraid to say contained the local delicasy of llama sperm. Yes the sperm of a llama.....nothing im too proud of but in my drunken state some of the cocktails; ...