After a breakfast of pancakes, which the Adventure Brew seems to have a limitless supply of, we headed out to explore the city, starting with San Francisco Square and the Church-come-Museum around which it was built. For $40 BOB ($8 AUD) we were given an hour long guided tour of the church in English, exploring not only the church itself, but the roofs, belfry, gardens and crypts as well. With this came a bit of a history lesson, too: The church was constructed i...

We arrived in La Paz after our crucible of bus rides tired, hungry and in need of a shower and utterly lost. To add to this, Lisa seemed to be suffering from a bit of altitude sickness. We wondered the streets until we found a cafe with wifi, where after a couple of mugs of coca tea - excellent stuff - and a destination in mind, we headed to the Adventure Brew, a hostel/brewery near the bus depot of La Paz. There, we had a well needed wash, a nap and something to...

60 Bus hours later, we're in La Paz now! These were not, however, your standard Australian bus hours, filled with alcoholics and casual racism, but much more exciting than that, featuring 3-hour late buses, bipolar cabins alternating between steam baths and freezers, roadside diners with unusual hours, a five hour wait in Puerto Suarez in scorching heat, miniature emus-come-dinosaur-bird, a small child with a head wound and a Chilean Angel named Francisca without...

After walking near 40km over the previous two days, we decided to take today a little easier, heading to the bakery for breakfast before hanging out with the fish in the pool. After a relaxing morning we woke up Felipe to say thankyou and fairwell before heading back via train to our new hostel in Vila Madalena. This was the afternoon of our first tropical storm, too, and what a storm! What started out as a short walk to the grocery store turned into a swim as wa...

Today started with a dip in the pool, then dragging Lisa out of bed for breakfast at the local bakery. Pao de Queijo is a delicious fluffy scone-like bread on the outside, but torn open contains a lattice of holes with a great mild cheesy flavour. After breakfast, we took the trains to Barra Funda to arrange the next leg of our trip: A long bus ride to Santa Cruz. Following that ordeal and a great many lost in translation moments, we decided to walk to the centra...