Hola, We felt this activity deserved a blog of it´s own! For those of you who have been to South America, you will know instantly what we are about to describe when you hear the word Potosi. The highest city in the world at 4060m, it has been based on minerals in particular, Silver, for 100´s of years. Tours of working Silver mines are the main attraction in this town (which was once the wealthiest town in the whole continent, but is now facing it´s total de...

Greetings from Sucre! This used to be the captial of Bolivia until La Paz took over a few years ago, however, Sucre still thinks it is. The rivalry makes Sydney/Melbourne, Edinburgh/Glasgow look tame! We were very glad to arrive here having been particularly underwhelmed by La Paz. It may have been too hyped up in advance, but apart from an excellent British Curry House and the fascinating San Pedro Prision (we tried to get in for a tour but that is no longer an...

Hola from Bolivia, In our last night in Cusco, Mal tried some guinea pig......not overly impressed but you can clearly see the paw in the photo in our album! This goes paw in paw with the alpaca he tried earlier in Peru! We were very glad to finally cross the Border into Bolivia from Peru. The on going strikes in Peru made travel a constant headache (we actually left Puno one day at 5.45am to try and ´beat´the strike, but the bus was turned back when protest...