Hello everybody! We have finally arrived in Argentina... thank god!! Let me update you on what we{ve been up to. In La Paz, Dean signed up for an excursion to mountain bike down Death >Road, the world most dangerous road, so named due to the number of people who have met their fate doing the exact same thing! I, of course, declined as i dont have a death wish, so I stayed in La Paz, worrying. According to the propaganda, its a 3000m vertical descent over 64kms, over some of the thinnest and steepest roads in the world! They left at 8am, and were meant to be back at 6pm... it got to about 8pm, and I started to worry some more, then 9, 10, 11.... at this stage I was convinced something horrible had happened. At 12.30pm, dean came through the door, covered in mud, grinning from ear to ear that it was amazing. It turns out that two other people on the trip fell from their bikes and required stitches, so the whole group was held up at the hospital. Lucky for him he sustained no injuries, bar sore hands from squeezing the brakes so hard... The next day we headed to Potosi, a mining town in Bolivia, once the richest town in Bolivia before the spanish conquered it. We went on a tour of the mine which was built in the early 1600s , We had to get fully suited up into the miner gear and helmet and then went to the market to but some dynamite... yes you can buy dynamite at the market in Bolivia!! Our guide blew up a pumpkin to show us the power of the blasts that the miners use every day. He said that the youngest miners are only 12 years old, and rarely live past 40 due to the amount of crap accumulated in their lungs. Very sad. And the pay off is only US$120 per MONTH!! The guide warned us that if we were calustrophobic we might not like the mine, but I thought Id give it a go anyway... bad idea. I got about 160m into the mountain, and i don{t know whether it was the sheer panic or the lack of oxygen, but I couldnt breathe and proceeded to have a panic attack!! Luckily the guide was able to get me out quickly, but I dont think that mining is a good career choice for me! Once back at the hotel there was talk that a bus overturned on the road that we needed to take that day, and that the condition of the road was so poor that we didnt know whether we should risk travelling on it... but we did anyway and 12 hours later arrived in Uyuni, the home of the largest salt lake in the world. The colour is amazing- check out the photos. From there, we had to drive back on that horrible road, and of course we got bogged, spending another two hours trying to dig our way out.... all part of the fun i guess. We arrived in Argentina last night and what a difference to Bolivia! Prople have roofs on their houses, the streets are paved, its actually a lot like home... and the heat!!! its 40 degrees toady and its just lucky that we are camping in the gounds of the larget swimming pool in the southern hemisphere or we{d be roasting!! Tomorrow we go white water rafting and on a flying fox thing over a rainforest canopy... should be fun! Take care everyone, Nadeane & Dean...