My first day in La Paz I took a double decker bus city tour that took us up to a mountain w/ a beautiful view of the city.They told us that there had been about 175 presidents in 175 years - one only lasted 6 hours!There was also 1 president in jail.After the tour we went to the grocery store and I finally found and bought peanut butter for almost $6!!! ?I had some great Mexican food for dinner which I had been craving and then saw a Miss Cholita pageant!!It was ...

Ben, Ainsley & I took the early bus to Potosi having to deal w/ a lady w/ a baby & 2 kids that only bought one seat for all of them.One of the kids was screaming and it was a big mess - welcome to South America !They finally quieted down and we made it to Potosi , the tallest city in the world - over 4000m ASL.We took the famous mine tour although it was really sad.We learned about their use of dynamite and coca leaves, straight alcohol, and really strong...

After barely surviving the freezing cold bus, then burning hot taxi and getting in to Sucre at 4am we slept a little at our hostel and started our day in Bolivia's constitutional capital after noon. We walked through the market & tried the traditional api (yellow) and tojori (purple) corn drinks as well as a delicious cherimoya fruit. We also saw tons of amazing flowers and cakes - getting ready for Mother's Day there which was the next day (27th). From the...

I took a 4 day trip from Tupiza to Uyuni, Bolivia. Here goes... Day 1 we saw the rock formation quebrada de pallala then wound up around hills up to a high area rock formation called el sillar. We then drove by some mines & our guide told us that the cooperative miners make a lot of money but die very young - they don't last more than 20 years after starting to work there. We finally stopped for lunch at Awanapampa where we saw lots of llamas. That place was...

I took a tour of the interesting rock formations near Tupiza. I got w/ the guide who was pretty quiet but played some funny Bolvian music from the girl group "Las Consentidas de Potosi" and he took me first to this type of natural tunnel that I walked through (el angosto). From there we went down to Entre Rios where 2 rivers converge. We had to walk a ways down to la Torre and on the way we saw some burros. We walked back and then back in the jeep u...