Bolivian roads are truely appaling. Our overnight bus from Oruro to Uyuni would surely take 3 hours at most on a paved road, but sadly we spent 9 boneshaking hours crammed into a tinpot bus on what must be the worst road in South America. And thats really saying something. It wasnt really a road, but simply any area of desert free of rocks and shrubbery, and it seems that the driver may have been a practisicing rally driver, looking to improve his skills and ther...

For a long long time at home and throughout this trip we have been really looking forward to working in an animal sanctuary. After lacking enough time to work at one in Ecaudor we were really happy to find another one, Inti Wara Yassi in the Chapare region of Bolivia. You may have heard of this region, as it is one of the worlds biggest producers of cocaine, and in the middle of a dengue fever epidemic - two excellent credentials! The news that we werent allowed ...

BOLIVIA Lake Titicaca We had been warned that travelling in Bolivia was very difficult due to constant road blocas and protests. Bearing in mind that it was Peruvians who cheerfully told us this we were pretty peeved that when we tried to leave Cusco there was actually a roadblock in Peru, so it took a while longer than wed hoped to get over the border into Copacabana on the Bolivian shores of the worlds highest lake (over 3700 m.a.s.l.); Lake Titicaca. This ...