The next day we were back on the bus heading to Arequipa, Peru´s 2nd largest city. The city stands in a valley at the base of El Misti volcano, a snow capped perfect cone 5822m high. Its a very pretty city with nice spanish buildings and a beautiful main square, although there were roadworks going on everywhere and lots of dirty old builders! After settling into our hotel rooms we quickly got ready to go out and celebrate Sophie and Michelle´s birthday...

Another early start later and we were back on Sawmpy heading for Cusco and the horrors of the Inca Trail (something which I had totally put out of my mind until now)! We made a toilet stop along the way at the highest point that Swampy will drive through on the tour (4200m). There was a really cool but small market with the softest baby alpacas walking around with cute children and we were surrounded by snow covered mountains... very nice! We stopped for lunch a...

The next morning we were to say goodbye to Bolivia and hello to Peru. We packed up Swampy around 10am (lie in... whooop) and headed for the pre-inca ruins of Tiwanaku. We had an extremely sweet but sadly very boring tour guide on the truck with us for the first time that morning. The idea was for her to tell us about the ruins before we got there and then take us around the site when we got there. However, the majority of the bus actually fell asleep as she told ...

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...