At 7:30am, Manda and I had eaten breakfast and were picked up to be taken to ABISMO ANHUMAS!!!! It was discovered by accident in the 1970's after a bushfire destroyed the bush on someone's farm. The first people to explore the underwater network of caves all died, which is really comforting to learn in the car on your way to diving these caves. It is a huge 72metre rappel (like abseiling but with no footholds, see picture, that is abismo) into the abyss onto a pl...

Another awesome wake up call from our friendly neighbourhood howler monkeys making excruciating burping noises at 5:30am. Combined with the macaws screeching away, there was no way we'd get a sleep in! Dawn and I got up and went for a walk on the boardwalk around the hostel looking for the elusive anaconda but all we saw was a cheeky coati (like a long tailed possum) that wandered in front of us, completely comfortable with our presence. We then had a nice buff...

The last few days before boarding our train from Santa Cruz to the Brazilian border really aren't worth writing much about - we basically ate and slept and rested before hitting Brazil with full force. We left Santa Cruz at 6pm on an overnight train, after Ken, a 70 year old flamer from Canada got pickpocketed, losing his camera with an entire trips worth of photos and a wad of American cash. 13 long, cold hours later, we arrived at Quijarro, right on the Boliv...

A hangover is always fixed by a full buffet breakfast, and that is exactly what we got in Sucre. After a full on couple of weeks, I spent the day just wandering around Sucre. The best part, is the huge central market and the women that will whip you up two sundae glasses full of freshly blended juice of your choice for 5 bolivianos - 50c!! My favourite so far is chirimoya (custard apple) and strawberry. I could definitely get used to having fresh organice juic...

After breakfast, we took one last look around Potosi, before catching a lowered, big muffler taxi to the new bus terminal (these ridiculous attempts to look like a boy racer are extremely common, even in taxis, some of them even say "i love w****s" on the back window). It only took 3 hours to get to Sucre by bus, and I instantly fell in love with this place. It is very european, and was the home of alot of royalty, who came from europe to mine Potosi, but liked...