Tom: Hey all! 3 hours on a boat and 3 on a bus and we're in Montevideo, Uruguay (quite civilized travelling times considering our recent bus journeys!). Buenos Aires was beautiful and I'm vaguely missing it already. We got on a ferry from there to an old Portuguese smuggling town called Colonia del Sacramento. It was very pretty and had some nice things to see such as the town gateway, wharf and lighthouse, but any longer than the two hours we spent there would'...

Tom: We have arrived in Buenos Aires, and man is it good to be here!!! The feeling of arrival in BA is very much like turning up in Sydney after 10 weeks in South East Asia. I think Nil and I had gotten back into the groove of horrible toilets, suspect food and generally being a bit skanky. Here it´s suddenly sophisticated dining, French architecture and hot showers. If Parisians spoke Spanish, this is what it´d be like! I´m beggining to feel better after a w...

Tom: Not a huge deal to say with this one. We´ve reached Asuncion from La Paz after two 24hour bus rides, one of which I got ill on (again). The border crossing was fun - there was one overweight and very excitable sniffer dog, who seemed interested in the crackers in my rucksack (the only solid food I could manage at this point), and we had our luggage checked through very thoroughly by border control, and our bus kept stopping along the way to the capital to ...

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...