The salt flat tour- we booked this in La Paz on advice that all the agencies in uyuni were in cahoots to rip you off! We paid a fair bit extra to ensure that our lodges had hot water and heating as we had heard that the tour was particularly cold at night. The first day was spent just on the flats, taking photos of crazy perspectives and finishing with champagne at sunset. Our lodge that night was a lovely little lodge made solely out of rocks, heating and hot w...

So potosi... Highest city in the world so not so great for my altitude sickness but the antibiotics were helping with my cough by this point so feeling on the mend regardless. Everyone had been fairly dismissive of potosi but we found it to be quite a nice little city, buzzing with people. Unfortunately we were warned about the food being likely to cause illness and poor Katie spent the time we were there in bed with a dicky tummy. The main reason we went was ...

After copacabana we went to la Paz, capital of Bolivia. It was a pretty interesting journey, in order to cross lake titicaca they emptied us all onto speed boats and then put our entire coach on a motorised raft- there were a lot of anxious faces watching the coach's route to check it didn't sink and take all our bags with it! La Paz was an interesting city, big and buzzing ad very hilly, and unfortunately smelling strongly of urine a lot of the time! I picked...

Sorry we haven't updated for so long, I'm going to try and fill in the gaps now! This is specially for grandma who I know can now read the blog. So we went from cusco to copacabana on Lake Titicaca, the perfect jumping off point to go and see the Isla del Sol- alleged inca birth place. Copacabana itself was a nice little town, if a bit touristy. We managed to see them doing the blessing of the cars in front of the church pictured- they drape flowers over the car...