Nil: We´re in La Paz now after having spent three days on the salt pans in Uyuni. We were bundled into a 4WD jeep with 4 other travellers and drove through some of the most diverse landscapes. Every day we saw something different. The first day we were taken to the salt flats which were bright white and barren, allowing us to have some fun with the camera, taking perspective photos. We then came across Fish Island, called that because of its shape and not for t...

Tom: It´s all altitude, altitude, altitude with us isn´t it? Well we promise this´ll be the last time it´s mentioned in our blogs, as we´ve reached the highest point above sea-level of our trip - Potosi (the world´s highest altitude city) which stands at 4070m - and it just so happens that it´s my favourite location in Bolivia so far. Sucre was unimpressive to me - I don´t think that having lots of walls painted white really warrants a UNESCO status, and...

Nil and Tom Just a quick blog post to let you all know that we've arrived in Sucre and are very relieved to have left the dump that is La Paz! We didn't have any problems there, but one could see why it is considered such a dangerous city, as even the coffee shop we frequented had its own armed security guard!!! We think that, although Sucre is a UNESCO site, Luang Prabang, Laos's UNESCO site, beats it hands down for sheer beauty and atmosphere. We're relaxing n...

Tom: I understand that venting frustration is not the standard use of a travel blog, but on this occaision I can´t help myself. If there are any travellers/Frenchmen out there who find the task of washing their feet or their socks an arduous one, and for whom the idea of wearing rotting trainers without even a vague trace of an odor-eater insole seems like a good one, could you please for the love of God think twice before stepping into a confined space (i.e. a...

Nil: We made it to Copacabana in Bolivia after travelling for 10 hours in a moving ice box, which is a more fitting name for the bus we took! It was absolutely freezing for the entire journey, so cold in fact, that the condensation in the bus froze onto the inside of the windows! As you can probably guess the heating wasn´t working, but to make matters worse, when I asked if they could turn on the heating, they decided to turn on the A/C instead! Ooo, it´s all...