After returning from Rurenbarque to La Paz I met up with Dominic 2 days later and we set out on another car trip from La Paz to Santa Cruz, through Cochabamba (Bolivia). Because I dont have many photos with my broken camera and I have been writing for some five hours today, […]

We got to La Paz and all went out for a night out.  We hadn´t booked flights to Rurenbarque but we knew Nick and Jess they were there about a day ahead of us so we booked a flight and when we arrived I talked to a number of different tour agencies and found which one […]

Skipping a day now…we went from Uyuni to Oruro which is just a town that is basically one big market (the pictures messed up while uploading and now the battery on my camera is dead….and Its dead becuase I cant take pictures with it anymore for some reason so I havn´t been charging the battery) […]

After walking around in Uyuni for a little bit looking for a place to stay, we ran into someone we met in Salta, Argentina who gave us a good reccomendation of a hostel to stay in. We were relieved to be back paying $3 or $4 USD a night as opposed to the $20 - […]

When we were waiting for the bus to Bolivia we met Celine, from France, and Bosh, from England, who were both traveling alone. Celine barely spoke any English but she was fluent in Spanish so over the next 4 or 5 days of traveling together we frequently found ourselves having conversations in Spanish which helped […]

I havn´t written for a while mostly becuase of a combination of things. Sometimes I have just been moving to quickly to spend a few hours uploading photos and writing and other times I have just been in places that were just simply too hot to sit at a computer for more than five minutes. […]

Our bus from Purmamarca to Chile involved climbing from about 6000 feet to a little over 12000 feet in just about an hour.  The rapid increase in altitude caused extreme nausea and the best way to soothe the pain is to partake in the local tradition of chewing coca leaves.  The effects of the leaves […]