Hola again! We've just arrived in boiling hot Chile (oxymoron?) after an exhilerating 3 day jeep tour through the Salar de Uyuni (Bolivian salt flats). Having passed through Potosi for a night, we arrived in Uyuni pretty clueless about how the jeep tours worked and where to begin. As soon as we stepped off the bus we were inundated with fliers and Bolivians offering us tours, but which one to choose? Rather sensibly, we decided to follow the guide book's advi...

We're back... hope you didn't miss us too much! We last wrote to you back in Peru, when we had seen the floating islands and were about to cross into Bolivia. The crossing was, well, interesting. Our 10 hour "direct" journey began with a coach to the border. We got off the coach at the Peruvian border control to have our exit visa stamped, and then walked across the border (which was pretty exciting) into Bolivia, to have our Bolivian entry visa stampe...

Hi again, After finishing up in Cusco on Wednesday (with some clean clothes fresh from the InkaWash), we checked out of our hostel early on Thursday to catch the coach down to Puno, a small town on the shores of Lake Titicaca. As our original bus route had fallen through, we had decided to treat ourselves to a trip on the InkaExpress coach... along with a bus-full of old american tourists (we were the youngest on the coach by about 40 years!). The journey took 1...

Hola! Last time we left you in Nazca, about to embark on a 14 hour overnight journey to Cusco. Well, the 14 hour journey turned out to be a 17 hour journey, but at least the coach was comfy! Fully reclining leather armchairs, pillows, blankets, veggie meals (including chocolate cake for breakfast) and a few films... not bad at all! Joel, having overcome his coach-sickness with an impressive cocktail of herbal and pharmaceutical pills, had a rude awakening, howeve...

Feliz Cumple Joel (Happy Birthday Joel!) It's been a busy couple of days, so we thought we'd update whilst we have a spare minute. We moved on from Lima on Thursday morning on a coach called PeruBus, where we travelled in style in "Business Class". This means paying an extra 3 soles per person (about 60p) and getting a ton more legroom! The 4 and a half hour journey passed quickly, as there was a TV on the bus, where we were shown 6 episode of A.M.I....