Helloooooo, I havençt got long because I need to go and get ready for my early birhtday celebration but I will just bullet point some of the things we have been doing since my last post. we took an awful rickety nightbus from sucre to cocabamba and I had poor ickle soph white faced next to me who had been sick before getting on it and both during the journey. MOst of us found it a journey from hell never mind the ill ppl. We had the interesting experience of...

Hola all, So we all got back from our horseriding/mountain biking with sore bums and glowing faces but it was well worth it! We had to cycle uphill very steeply for quite some time at the start and I can honestly say I think my heart was going to come out of my chest. I blame the altitude/ heat/ steepness oh yer and perhaps the fact that I haven´t been most active since the marathon. But luckily the rest of the tour wasn´t as bad with many gradual inclines sh...

Hello again, I spent 30 mins trying to upload my photos at the last hotel with no luck, so it may be a while before you see any. In my last blog I was in Potosi but I had not even ventured out of the hotel yet so i didn´t have much to tell. Later that day I went to explore the town which was crowded and manic with cars and buses everwhere and cholitas (typical bolivian women who wear a certain type of skirt, genrally wear a bowler hat and wear their hair in ...

Hey everyone, Since my last blog we left the little cowboy town of san pedro to be met by our 4by 4 truck drivers who drove us through the atacama desert for three days. It started off badly as we were meant to be leaving at 8.30 but our alaram didn´t go off. Instead we were woken up by some of our group knocking on our door at 8.30 giving us minutes to dress and make sure we ahdn´t left out passport/money/camera behind!! If that wasn´t bad enough, when we g...