Wednesday 17th March 2010We Left La Paz this morning at 8am for a long all day journey to Puno in Peru. As part of this journey we had a short boat crossing across Lake Titicaca. Lake Titicaca is a lake located on the border of Peru and Bolivia It sits 3,812 m (12,500 ft) above sea level, making it one of the highest commercially navigable lakes in the world. By volume of water, it is also the largest lake in South America. The lake is located at the northern en...

La Paz, the city, that touches the sky, is an apt description. Located high above sea level, La Paz sits in a bowl surrounded by the high altiplano. La Paz as it grows climbs the hills resulting in varying elevations from 3000 to 4100 m. Overlooking the city is towering triple-peaked Illimani, always snow covered and majestic. La Paz is the legislative capital of Bolivia, the largest city. The legal capital, home of the Supreme Court, is in Sucre. Not as often vi...

Friday 12th March 2010 We arrived in Arica at around 6pm after a four and a half hour bus journey from Iquique. Once we had collected our luggage we went to book our tickets for Sunday to get to La Paz in Bolivia which after working out which counter we needed to be at turned out to be reasonably easy. After we had got our tickets we got taxi to the hostel which was called surfside backpackers which we presumed therefore it would be on the beach but no it was a...

Iquique- A Coastal city in North Chile and our next destination! Wednesday 10th March 2010, Iquique Well after our very long 17 hour bus journey from La Serena we eventually arrived in Iquique at around 4:30pm!! God were we glad to get off that bus!After buying tickets at the bus station for our next leg we jumped in a taxi and off we went to our hostel. The taxi man talked non-stop all the way to the hostel, we just wished we could understand what he was say...

Monday 8th March 2010 We arrived in Le Serena at around 16.30pm before going to found our hostel we decided to buy tickets for our next destination as we wanted to get the overnight bus tomorrow night. This turned out to be a bit more difficult than the first time but we got there in the end. From the station the hostel El Punto was only 10 minute walk away and we managed to find it very easily.The hostel was very nice and felt very Spanish even though it is Ge...