Copacabana, Bolivia We arrived in Copacabana after a short 3-hr bus ride from La Paz which included an unexpected channel crossing of Lake Titicaca. Passengers were given the option of crossing with the bus on an old rickety wooden ferry, or crossing on wooden motorboats for an additional fee of4 Bolivianos (US$1). After seeing how low the busses sunk the pontoons we were both very happy to cough up the $1 alternative crossing fee. Copacabana is a small ...

La Paz, Bolivia Our three days in La Paz were spent doing a variety of things, including a bit more drinking than we'd intended, as we met up with an Irish friend of our friend Vincent who'd been managing the Arequipa branch of the Wild Rover hostels and was in La Paz for 'training'. We spent our first day doing a day tour to Chacaltaya mountain where we were able to hike the last 1km to the summit (a very dizzying walk at 5400m/17400ft). The tour also took u...

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia It took us a good few days in San Pedro de Atecama to research and choose a tour operator for the Salar de Uyuni 4x4 tour. The reason being that we had heard from other travellers and had read on TripAdvisor.com that in recent years there have been a number of fatal accidents on the Salar due to drunk driving tour guides. One particularly bad incident in 2008 involving a head on collision between two 4x4s resulted in 13 deaths! After a...

Potosi, Bolivia Danger was the theme for our two day trip to Potosi which kicked off with a rough and rugged 7-hr bus ride from Uyuni with our Salar de Uyuni friends David and Merryn. The bus was old and clunked back and forth through so many hellish switchbacks that Charlotte's colon was writing IOU's by the time we arrived in Potosi. Potosi is the highest city in the world at 4060m (14,000ft). In the 1600s it was the richest city in South America thanks t...