Get Off Yer Horse!!..... We were in small dusty town called Tupiza, Bolivia. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, after a long life of crime all over North and South America, committed their last robbery in this area before the law finally caught up with them. So it was a place full of wild west history and put images in my head of sherrifs and cowboys, rustling and campfires, beans and blazing saddles, so becoming a cowboy while we were here seemed to make...

Salt............................. Uyuni is a strange little town, there's not much there to speak of , just a little town in the desert. We got off the coach and were immediately approached by a guy selling trips to the salt lakes. Having been on another over nighter we were a bit bewildered and wandered about trying to find the local banos (loo) and the salt lake guy kept following us. Eventually we gave in and he led us into his little shop. All around...

DONT BE A LLAMA'D its just another party! After I had recovered Ray and I explored La Paz. It is the capital city of Bolivia and another incredibly busy place. It is set in the heart of a valley with surburbia climbing and sprawling its way up the hillsides. At first I had similar feelings for La Paz as I had for Puno (dirty, dusty, smelly etc) but slowly the place grew on me. As we wondered around we came to guitar shop street, you guessed it ..there we...

Going To The Dark Side or the lows and lows of world travel After lake Titkaka, I became quite unwell with altitude sickness. The last night in Puno was horrendous, I couldn't sleep and when I tried I woke up feeling like I was being strangled. (I checked , Ray was sleeping!) The only real cure for altitude sickness is to head to lower ground so the next morning we left on a day bus and headed for La Paz, Bolivia. Not a massive difference in altitude but...

Rock Puma...Raarrr!!! For the first time we reached a city that I really didnt like. Puno is a little place which you have to go through in order to visit Lake Titikaka; the largest lake in South America and the highest navigable lake in the world. The origin of the name Titikaka isnt really known but the locals have translated it as "Rock Puma", as people have traditionally interpreted the shape of the lake to be like a puma hunting a rabbit. Anyway, w...