Chilling out in a surf resort has luckily given me time to get a load more photos updated, so sorry if its a bit of overkill at the min! This album is from our last few days in Bolivia, which has been a fantastic country. Although its the poorest in South America the people are generally friendly and helpful and although its beginning to get touristy its not as thrust in your face as it is in Peru making it a far nicer experience than constantly fending off dodg...

Well I´m pretty sure I left it when I´d broken our camera up at the geysers due to having mittens on in about -4 at 5000m and it being about 6 in the morning so I wasn`t awake yet. Luckily from their we were just travelling all day and all night to get to La Paz, Bolivias largest city, set in a bowl up at 3,600m. The first 7 hours we spent in jeeps with the lovely thought of hot showers and pizza waiting for us before getting a night train, however when we go...

Leaving Sucre and 3000m behind also leaves just about bareable roads and facilities behind. Public buses and jeeps have been our transport for the last week or so as we headed off in to the remotest part of our trip. Our first stop was Potosi (which they claim is the worlds highest city at 4060m) it´s a mining town and pretty much the main reason the Spainish wanted Bolivia as it´s where vast amounts of Silver came from. A few of our group got really...

So I left it when we were about to embark on our border crossing from Brazil to Bolivia. All we can say is what a difference 100m of road can make we went from tarmac, concrete buildings, decent cars and an almost western country to a dusty, corrupt, shack like Bolivia! Their imigration office consisted of a small room with stale food, an old typewritter and papers just falling out of broken cupboards. Illigal money changers hanging around the streets and the ro...