La Paz to Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia)( thurs 30 Oct- Mon 3rd Nov) Arrived in La Paz after a 3 hour bus journey from Copacabana. La Paz is the highest capital city in the world at about 4000 metres above sea level and walking about is still hard work. Like Lima there is not a great deal to do and a couple of days is long enough to have a look around and get a feel for the place. We visited the Coca Museum. The coca leaf is one of Bolivia's biggest crops and exports....

Cusco to Lake Titicaca (Bolivia)(27th Oct- 29th Oct) The bus journey from Cusco to Puno (which stands on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca) should take about 5 hours. However because of local peasants protesting about price increases, the main route was blocked by large boulders and the bus driver had to take a scary hair-raising 3 hour detour over high passes and narrow dirt tracks. Just as we were about to rejoin the main road we were stopped again by more b...