Thankfully the blockade we mentioned in our last blog was removed on the day we travelled from Copa to La Paz. This meant that it only took us 3 hours to get to the city (whilst it took Tina and Neil, our travelling buddies from Puno and Copa 7 hours and the 3 buses), we got to go through some wonderful landscapes (with amazing geological features for Suzie) and also experience the water taxis that take you across the narrowest part of Lake Titicaca (this is to p...

Wow. What difference a border and a few hours on a bus make. Copacabana, Bolivia, is a beautiful haven at the south of Lake Titicaca and here you can really appreciate it. It's a charming little town, a real, vibrant, local community interacting with very few tourists. And as we lay in our hammocks, looking out over town and across the bay, we could be anywhere- it's got a real meditteranean feel to it. And the weather is awesome. The must-do thing here is a tri...

We had booked 3 nights here and within an hour of arriving had cancelled the last of them, leaving us time to sleep, have a trip to islands on Lake Titicaca, sleep and get the heck out of Dodge. Now, we should stress that we stayed at a lovely hostel where we had a private room, sharing a living room with another couple. The room and the couple were fab, and it was excellent to chill out in our living room, cook our own dinner and watch telly (oh, and watch Mamm...

Altitude sickness is really rubbish. It took a while to hit us properly; either this was a delayed impact or - more likely - we both had colds so blamed the symptoms on that. Such symptoms include: nausea, fizzily sensation in parts of the body (pins & needles-ish), achiness, headache, shortness of breath and an overwhelming lethargy. On only one night since reaching 3000m have we stayed up past 9pm. After flying from Quito to Cusco (via Lima - looks like w...

Okay, so it's not as bad as the title suggests. Quito Old Town is really, really pretty and has some beautiful churches (including one covered entirely in 26kt gold leaf on the inside) etc. But life at 2,900 metres above sea level is tough on the lungs... especially when you've got a cold (as both of us do). We had a lovely first day, wandering around the town, popping into churches, going to a rubbish museum - the highlight of which being some incredibly 'grap...