¡Hola! Huayna Potosí is a 6088m (19,974ft) snow-capped mountain in the Cordillera Real (Royal Range) just north of La Paz.It had always been lurking on the periphery of my travel plans since I became very jealous of pictures of two of my friends from the Parque Machía project, Marianne and Ross, at the summit in the middle of a blizzard.It's said to be one of the easiest 6000+ peaks in the world to climb, not because it is simple technically, but because La P...

¡Hola! After leaving Cochabamba I flew south down to Sucre, the judicial capital of Bolivia, to soak up some of the convivial colonial atmosphere.The city is definitely one of Bolivia's prettiest, with very well-kept streets full of colonial buildings and a grand main plaza reminiscent of that of Cuenca in Ecuador.I climbed up the hill to the Mirador café to enjoy a great view of the city over lunch and then bought some Sucre's famous Para Tí chocolates to gr...

¡Hola! There have been so many things going over the last few weeks leading up to my leaving Cochabamba, including the departure of so many important people and good friends, not least Sarah of course, but also a string of very good friends, such as Mirka, Lene, Martin, Hannah, Julia, Josh, Agur, Bríd, Adrienne and John Loveday.Of course, I am myself leaving behind some very, very good friends in Cochabamba who I am already missing so much: Devan, Alan and Eri...

¡Hola! Well last week was Spring Break: my one holiday from school this semester.So myself and three friends from Sustainable Bolivia - Bríd, Agur and Adrienne - headed down to Tupiza, near the Argentine border, for a four-day jeep trip up to the Salar de Uyuni. Tupiza is a blinkin' long way away, so we had to first head by bus to Oruro (where we had watched the Carnaval back in February) and catch an overnight train to Tupiza.There are very few railways in B...

¡Hola! Last weekend I went to a 'nearby' national park, called Toro Toro, with six others from Sustainable Bolivia.The road out to this area is notorious for being washed away whenever there is a storm, but we were very lucky and had nothing but blue skies the whole weekend. Our hostel was a sweet little place with lots of flowers in the garden, loads of very anti-social but very pretty pedigree cats, and a very weird but adorable pedigree dog.On the Satur...