So what else are you supposed to do at a lake other than go for a boat ride? (Ed don't even think about saying fishing!) We caught the slowest boat (the one that got lost on it's way to China) to Isla del Sol, island of the Sun, where we were given 2 hours to go explore the Inca ruins. We found them pretty easily after about 1 hour of walking, so after a few quick pics we head back to ensure we don't miss our water taxi. Somehow the trail we followed to the ruins...

This city looked a lot like Cairo. Every single house is built with the same plan out of the same clay bricks, no paint, no trimmings, no roofs - just the same double story brown block houses built on top each other for as far as the eye can see...which is quite far as the city is built in a mini canyon, each side of the city was super steep but the houses just kept on piling up. On day 2 we PAID to ride down 'death road' on bicycles. The road just outside of L...

We were under the impression that this was the cultural capital of Bolivia. I expected to see everyone dressed in the traditional gear, selling hand made crafts and traditional foods. Instead it's a bustling modern city, most people walked around in jeans with cellphones blaring their latest hit (earphones not a huge craze in Bolivia, the overnight bus was testament to that as 3 or 4 people played their own tunes from their cellphones LOUDLY! Sounded like a grade...

This is Bolivia's most beautiful city (which is not difficult to achieve in this arid country) where independence was proclaimed. The streets are lined with old colonial style buildings and a large portion of the city is white washed. We wandered around the city streets for the morning, checking out all the historic buildings and then their local market - This place was amazing for food! We ordered a fruit salad which the fruit vendors make up for you using what...

We arrived at Villazon, Bolivia. I knew Bolivia was at altitudes 3500-6000m (by comparison the Drakensburg is only 3200m or so high,) so I went prepared! I had been taking my altitude tabs since the day before, but after the sun rose and we were through the Argentinean border the wheels on Luci's bus started to fall off! - nausea, headaches, pins and needles, feverish.... The rest of the trip from Villazon to uyuni and then around uyuni is a blur. I spent the ma...