We arrived in Arequipa and hurrah it was lovely and toasty warm! We checked into a lovely hostel and after spying the rooftop hammocks decided we would bury our heads in books for the afternoons and rome the streets in the morning and evenings! The main square was pretty awesome, think huge church, massive fountains and you get the picture! We frequently battled the goodness knows how many steps to reach the resturant at the top of one of the buildings just so ...

Once again...apologies for not updating this regularly but with camper van life and the expense of Oz we havent invested the time to write it up on here! We have been jotting things down though so its our mission now we're in cheaper countries and slowing our pace of life into 'Asia time" to spend some time typing up and uploading some blog entries as and when.... So cast your minds back to September time... Our flight touched down in Cusco in Peru and we ...

Sorry for the delay with the blog again, but after typing it all up and losing it 2 hours later, I just couldnt face looking at it again. So Sven took over and very kindly regurgetated the stories below Having boarded the bus to La Paz (mentally scared after the last bus adventure) we were pleased to find out that this bus was much better than the last one and one hour into the journey we could be assured that the road was paved (if not still on mountainous clif...

So we did it and survived. The most horrific and terrifying bus journey you could imagine. I had heard from Vicky that it wasn't the best journey so wasn't holding my hopes too high but as anticipated the roads to Potosi didn't fail to disappoint. We took the journey at night which somewhat added to the terror but in the same breath actually hid the true extent of the unbarriered sheer cliff drops. Our luck was out and we took our seats at the back, the seats wer...

We enrolled ourselves for the 3 day tour to Bolivia, where you visit the popular Salar to Uyuni (salt flats). We checked out of Chile at 2500 meters above sea level and then rapidly ascended to the Bolivian border at over 4000 meters, in roughly 30 minutes, which resulted in some expulsions of altitude sickness from a poor French boy on our tour. The altitude sickness seemed to magnify throughout the day for this boy and several other people. We were ok by comp...