For convenience (aka laziness) and to avoid either walking back up the steep hill to the bus station or being ripped off by a taxi we organised the bus to Copacabana through the hostel. Now La Paz is the start of the real tourist trail, so the hostel books you onto what is essentially a … More Bolivian Lake Titicaca – Copacabana & Isla del Sol
We left our hotel room in Cochabamba at 8am to catch one of the many buses to La Paz only to discover that the road to La Paz was… that’s right… blocked by protests. So instead we hopped on a bus to Oruro as it is basically on the way and would be 4 hours … More La Paz – Shoe shine boys and traffic chaos
Whether or not to visit Torotoro National Park was probably our toughest ‘where to go’ decision yet, but in the end we decided that there are only a few places in the world where you can see dinosaur footprints, so we sucked it up and paid for a private tour as the only practical way … More Walking in dinosaurs footprints – Torotoro National Park
So we’ve gone down in the world – literally. Cochabamba is only at a height of 2558m, so only just at high altitude. It’s the lowest we’ve been since San Pedro and its so warm! The shorts are back out (1st time since Puerto Igazua and only the 2nd time this trip), it doesn’t even … More Cochabamba
Catching the train from Tupiza to Oruro was bliss – a really nice change from buses, although being in Executive class probably helped as we had more room, seats that reclined way back, videos with English subtitles (although the choice of films left something to be desired, have you ever seen Tom and Huck?), and … More Oruro
Our stop in Uyuni was brief as we have become increasingly aware of time and so we spent half a day exploring the town, the markets, sussing out how to head south (yes south) and generally meeting the real life of Bolivia. We love Bolivia, the people are friendly and smiling and with un poco … More Uyuni & Tupiza – Isolated towns in South West Bolivia
To cross from Chile to Bolivia we decided to take a three day 4WD jeep tour across the mountainous terrain of the high Andes up to the Salar de Uyuni, looping round to end in the Bolivian town of Uyuni. We rocked up at 7:45am and were bussed (very slowly in an old minibus with … More Bolivia! 4WD tour of High Andes & Salar de Uyuni
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