Rurrenbaque can be reached two ways, by a 20 hour bus journey on the world´s most dangerous road or by plane. We opted for the latter and found ourselves flying out of El Alto airport, the highest international airport in the world, on the tiniest plane either of us had ever been on. We skimmed so close to two mountain peaks that you almost felt you could touch them and then we just descended the entire way until we were flying over tropical Amazonian rainfo...

La Paz is the highest capital in the world and probably also one of the mostpicturesque settings for a city. The city stands at 4,000 metres above sea level and its ringed by mountains in all directions. It´s also really really cold and the traffic is crazy, its virtually impossible to find a break in the traffic to cross the road and there are absolutely no places for pedestrians to cross. You can also buy pretty much anything in La Paz as we found when wa...

Salar de Uyuni is the world´s largest salt lake and one of the major highlights of our travels so far. It´s definitely on the gringo trail and there´s a train of 4WD leaving every morning from Uyuni with eager tourists on board. We tried as best we could to find something a little bit different and it was an absolutely amazing trip. The Salar itself took up two days of our 4 day trip and being there is like visiting a different planet. The sala...

Potosi is the highest town of its size in the world at 4,000 metres above sea level and God did we ever know about it! The headaches from the altitude and general laziness started almost immediately once we arrived and then there was the cold and the rain to contend with too. The town was built by the Spanish when they discovered silver in ´them there hills´ and it remains a mining town to this day however the silver dried up years ago and now its mor...

Sucre is the constitutional capital of Bolivia but to arrive there you would never believe it. It´s a quaint town with around a quarter of a million inhabitants and everything in the city centre is painted white which makes it look very colonial and really pretty. It´s also 3,000 metres above sea level so our first experience of cold in about 3 months! Gareth is loving it, me not so much :) I was born for warmer climes. One of the big sites in Sucre is...