Day 257 - San Pedro de Atacama - Friday 29th June 2012 We woke up pretty cold, with furry mouths, red stained teeth and feeling a little worse of wear - the hangover was setting in! After a leisurely wake up and a not so lovely breakfast (free in the hostel but consisted of a stale piece of bed and one, yes just one, measly cup of coffee) we were ready to go on our planned bike ride. We walked down to the main square and watched the festivities for a while, it...

Day 253, 254, 255, 256 - Uyuni & the Salt Plains tour & Bolivian sum up - Monday 25th, Tuesday 26th, Wednesday 27th, Thursday 28th June 2012 Wow Uyuni is absolutely freezing!!! We arrived in at 8am, still in our flip flops from the warm jungle of Rurrenabaque - by the time we had walked to somewhere to stay for the night our toes were suffering frostbite!! And we thought La Paz was cold………. We found a place to stay, which as usual had no heating...

Day 247 to 252 - The Amazon jungle & Pampas tour - Tuesday 19th to Sunday 24th June 2012 Today we were very excited as we were going to Rurrenabaque to start our five day Amazon jungle and Pampas tour, so we packed the night before and we up bright and early for our taxi ride to La Paz airport. After a quick free breakfast provided by our hotel we took the forty minute taxi ride to the airport. Once there we tried to check in but were told (quite firmly) b...

Day 243, 244, 245, 246 -La Paz - Friday 15th, Saturday 16th, Sunday 17th, Monday 18th June 2012 The ride the day before, and descent into La Paz was nothing short of spectacular; along the way the scenery was made up of Lake Titicaca on one side and miles of snow-capped mountains on the other and then once we arrived into La Paz we saw the numerous houses ascending into the mountains with the sun setting in the distance - not a bad arrival into the highest cap...

Day 240, 241, 242 - Lake Titicaca, Copacabana -Tuesday 12th, Wednesday 13th, Thursday 14th June 2012 Well today was going to be our first day in Bolivia! We checked out of our hostel after breakfast and grabbed the 1pm bus from the bus station - next stop Bolivia and the little town of Copacabana (no not the Brazilian one!!). After about four hours we reached the boarder of Peru and Bolivia and needed to fill out all the necessary paperwork, passport informat...