While we are glad we came to Bolivia, it was not our favorite of the 2 South American countries we have seen so far. Here are some fun Bolivia facts to ponder: 1. They don't seem to have working bathrooms on buses in the entire country. Even if there is a bathroom on board, which is rare, it's likely to be out of order. Given that we both have to pee every hour or 2, we have found this to be a form of cruel and inhumane torture. The drivers claim that they...

Bus rides in Bolivia are always an adventure. On Thursday night we tried taking a bus from Sucre to Cochabamba, what was supposed to be a 9 hour ride. We left at 7pm and made it as far as the police checkpoint, about 20 minutes outside the city before the bus broke down. We were told the police had called us another bus but we waited for over an hour and none came. The 2 drivers were both under the bus working on it using only the light from a cell phone, wh...

*** I would like to make a note that the focus of my blog will change slightly from here on out. I am going to start incorporating more specific information, such as how to catch a certain bus, which are the best tour companies to book with and include hostel reviews, while at the same time maintaining my journal-type writing style. In doing this I hope to make this blog a bit more useful to fellow travelers and anyone who would like to do these things in th...

Salt, salt and...borax? Last night we returned from our 3-day excursion to Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat. We traveled to Uyuni via a 7 hour train ride from Oruro. We had arrived in Oruro from La Paz on Monday and decided to spend the night there before our train ride on Tuesday afternoon. The 4 hour bus ride to Oruro would have been alright, except the bathroom was out of order. I've become accustomed to not drinking liquids of any kind on th...

Livin' big city life in La Paz! We arrived here a little over a week ago and have since been enjoying the Bolivian lifestyle in the big city. La Paz is nowhere near the size of Lima, but it's still pretty massive. Skyscrapers, tons of people, cars still trying to run us over (possibly more so than in Peru) and the world's largest urban gondola system, which just opened last year. This system connects different parts of the city and is attempting to remediate...