La Paz! Bolivia´s capital city. What a great place. We pulled into the City after a 17 hour bus journey to find the road partially blocked by a fiesta procession of students of La Paz. We watched the fiesta which envolved different colleges parading in traditional dress accompanied by marching bands. These celebrations lasted all day and into the night. We explored a nearby food market (incidently, I have not seen a supermarket here at all). We found the lunch h...

Sucre! This place is known as "The White City" It is a legal requirement that every building is white-washed once a year here. As you can imagine, this makes for a beautiful colonial city. As well as this, Sucre boasts the best University in Bolivia. We had a brief but enjoyable stay here. On our first day we went to the University tourism office and found a tourism student who kindly offered to give us a 3 hour private tour of the city. She was lovely...

Bolivia was such a shock to the system after 10 days in Chile which is the most economically developed country in Latin America. We arrived in Uyuni to find all but the main streets unpaved and desertous, the houses mostly identical and basic with just a window and door each and the women all in traditional Andean dress (huge puffy skirts, black top hats and colourful traditional textiles draped around their back to carry possessions/children - not a pushchair in...

Hola! So I am in Potosi in Bolivia and have just spent 30mins writing you a splendid 6 paragraph blog entry when out of nowhere, the page disappears! ARGGGGGG. Those of you who know me well know I have little luck with computers. So here goes again (apologies-it won´t be as good as the one that evaporated into thin air!) One of you has informed me that she is pleased that Roses has written the last couple of blogs, because she believes if they were written by...

The journey fron Santiago to San Pedro is one hour with wings and air hosts, or 22 hours on a bus to the next town along, followed by another hour on a second bus. Being immeasurably wise we chose the day-long option. Best journey EVER. The seats recline into beds on coaches here because the distances are so great so we were totally comfortable, the landscape was unlike anything I'd ever seen - so dramatic and so variable - and we weren't bored for a minute. W...