PARTY, PARTY, PARTY…that's pretty much all there is to do in La Paz, so I suppose it's a great place to be for Xmas. But after spending 3 nights before the Amazon & 4 nights after at Loki Hostel we needed a break. The Hostel itself was fantastic by Bolivian standards & it certainly catered well for Westerners with big comfy beds, hot showers & toilet paper (both unheard off elsewhere in the country). With almost 200 beds, free Wi-fi, a banging bar s...

On the boarder of Bolivia and Peru is the world's highest altitude lake, sitting at 3,811ft above sea level. This was our stop gap after a heavy xmas and soon to be New Year party scene. We decided to stay in a town called Copacabana on the Bolivian side of the lake. Arriving late afternoon we wanted to get our bearings and wondered around the village settings - a beautiful fishing port (renowned for their Trout) with little market stalls and craft shops everywhe...

All aboard the worlds smallest plane... we're off to the Amazon! The flight there was an adventure in itself with pretty bad turbulence & I couldn't believe it when I looked out of the window to find a mountain on one side & a glacier on the other, but what do you expect when you take off at nearly 5000mts above sea level. To our delight the plane landed safely - on a grass runway!! After leaving Rurrenabaque a gorgeous jungle village, the tour started w...

San Pedro de Atacama to Uyuni Salt Flats Dry desert, baron landscape & more dust than you find in a Dyson, mix that up with an altitude height of 4000+ metres… and that's just the Bolivian Immigration. We set off from San Pedro, Chile for a 3day tour across the Bolivian desert to the infamous Salt Flats. We were really lucky to get a good group of 10 other people, with quite a few Brits. There was a lot to be said about our 4x4 though, as at every oppo...