OK, despite being back in Scotland and about 3 months behind on this blog, I am determined to finish it! Puno, Peru: 30th March-3rd April 2011 To get to Puno, we took a 3hour bus (£2,50) from Copacabana, Bolivia. We had to cross the border on foot and meet the bus at the other side- all very organised and easy which is not always the case. Puno is not really that nice a place to visit, the only 'attraction' worth going for is the floating islands of the Uros ...

Steve's turn... SPDA - UYUNI Trip - Day1 Jump on a minibus - go back to shop where we booked the trip - wait 15 minutes then drive five minutes to the passport office (about an hour from the actual border with Bolivia). We drive uphill for ages and stop at the smallest little shed in the world (Bolivian Border Control); alt 4800. If we didn't stop, no one would have cared or even noticed - but we wouldn't get a wee bit of paper and a stamp in the passport. We g...

Sat 26th March 2011 Today we had to go to a well dodgy part of town to take a bus to Copacabana, Lake Titicaca. We had missed the 1 tourist bus of the day so ended up on a local bus; super cheap (like 2quid for 3.5hour journey) but of course we were the only tourists on the thing so stuck out like a sore thumb.Our hotel in Copacabana was luxury for us, nicest place we'd stayed for a while. We spent a couple of days wandering the charming town and just relaxing. ...

After the breath-taking (literally) and slightly traumatic 3 day trip in the Salar de Uyuni (see previous blog about my Bolivian doctor encounter), we had to take an overnight bus to La Paz. People warned us it would be a rough ride but you know how you always think people are exaggerating…well they weren't. Never experienced roads quite like it- we drove all night, in pitch black, through deep ditches, small rivers, and even passed by random fires. It wasn't a...

After the breath-taking (literally) and slightly traumatic 3 day trip in the Salar de Uyuni (see previous blog about my Bolivian doctor encounter), we had to take an overnight bus to La Paz. People warned us it would be a rough ride but you know how you always think people are exaggerating…well they weren't. Never experienced roads quite like it- we drove all night, in pitch black, through deep ditches, small rivers, and even passed by random fires. It wasn't a...