Arequipa and Colca Canyon 4/03/14 - 7/03/14 From Copacabana we took a bus to the Bolivia/Perú border. You get off the bus and collect your stamps, then meet the bus on the other side. Elliott was highly annoyed to be charged 50 BOB (about $10) because he threw away his immigration form, when the form specifically states that there might be delays but no fine if you haven't got your form. 'There are no fines in La Paz, but here, you have to pay'. Sure. What coul...

Sucre 25/02/14 - 1/03/14 We spent 5 nights in Sucre. We originally planned to have less time here but that's the way it worked out with our next flight to La Paz. Sucre is a lovely city to chill out for a few days though; it's known as the white city because there are so many white buildings. We hoped to do a hiking tour outside of the city but the dates didn't work out, so we just hung out in the city and ate nice meals :) There's a great lookout over the city ...

It's hard to imagine places where it is so isolated that there is nothing man-made in sight, and we were lucky enough to experience this for 4 days driving in a 4x4. The salt flats themselves are really just the icing on the cake - Bolivia is a beautiful country and every day of the tour was packed with incredible sights. We began the tour in Tupiza, where we had excellent luck in joining a group that was leaving the following morning with an English speaking gui...

So we spent a lovely Valentine's Day on the bus all day from Puerto Iguazu to Salta. And by lovely I mean horrendous. The first bus was 6 hours to Posadas, and not so bad. The situation deteriorated on the 18 hour overnight bus from Posadas to Salta. The guy who sold us the bus ticket lied and said that the seats at the back of the bus recline all the way. They don't. It was a bumpy trip on a lot of dirt roads and we got barely any sleep. This would have all been...

After finishing our Patagonia tour, we took a Via Bariloche bus from Buenos Aires to Puerto Iguazu (18 hours overnight). Via Bariloche was recommended to us, and we agree that it is really good. We paid 20% less than the price advertised on the website, which I think was for paying cash. You get a comfy reclinable seat (almost reclining flat) and we were served dinner and drinks. Lights were off at 10.30pm and we slept until 8am, only waking up a few times during...