After our eventful bus journey and another narrow escape we finally arrived in Uynai, with our new found friends George and Cat we set off to look for a comfy bed for the night before our 3 day 2 night tour. As usual we were harassed by everyone trying to sell us a tour to leave that day, when we explained we wanted to wait till 'mana' (tomorrow) they then tried to sell a hostel and tour! Little did we realise that no one ever stayed in Uynai, it is literall...

La Paz, the capital of Bolivia. High rise hotels and apartment blocks, flashy cars, smartly dressed people with PAs on call I hear you say? No way! Dark, grubby, smelly one way streets, polluted in advertisements and car smog and extremely dodgy looking people is the reality. Like I have mentioned before La Paz holds Sao Perdo prison the most corrupted back handed prison in Bolivia, well the whole country sticks to that theme. We arrived at what we were told was...

Well we are saying goodbye to our Hippy hostel today, goodbye to our chilled out environment and heading to Barra district for another different experience of Salvador Carnival. There are three main areas to Salvador Carnival, Historical center which is more about small group parades or performing on stages, Campo Grande which I believe is the original so therefore more locals attend the massive street parades and Barra the area we are heading to which is Grin...

Our border crossing from Peru into Bolivia was really easy, it was a matter of walking into one room to get an exit stamp then into the next room to get an entry stamp. We soon arrived to our destination Copacabana and after about 7 hostels we managed to find one that had space. We only planned to stay for one night here as time is starting to run away from us. We walked around the town which took only a few minutes and found a cute little restaurant. We were w...

We arrived in Puno on such a high, feeling positive and extremely confident about our trip (its said getting money from a Peruvian is like getting money from a Jewish!) We arrive at the bus station and like normal tours and hostels where being offered left right and center. We didn´t really have any plans to go to the floating islands on Lake Titicaca but we started talking to this guy and what he offered seemed incredible. For only 10 pounds we would go to th...