¡Hola! As Rob said, for the last month we have been working on separate volunteer projects. I´ve been living and working in one of Bolivia´s main cities, Cochabamba and volunteering at an environmental NGO called the CEDESOL Foundation. CEDESOL is a not-for-profit organisation that focuses on renewable energy, alternative education and health by primarily designing, building and promoting ecological cookers. CEDESOL build two types of ecological cooker: the m...

¡Hola! PG: this blog is a little less family-friendly than normal, so you may want to give it a quick check first before reading it with the kids :) Well, long-time no-write, but that is because both Sarah and I have been busy volunteering at separate projects in Bolivia for the last four weeks.Sarah is going to write a blog about what she has been up to I'm sure, but in the meantime here is what I was doing: I left Cochabamba and headed East into the j...

¡Hola! The Amazon jungle is massive (no pun intended) and we had the choice of exploring it from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru or Bolivia.We'd heard great things about the Amazon further North, but it was all a bit expensive; it was a lot cheaper to go into the jungle from Rurrenabaque in Bolivia.There were two options for getting there from La Paz: taking a 16-24 hour bus journey (depending on conditions) along the 'world's most dangerous road' for about £5, or t...

¡Hola! La Paz (3640m) is a damn cool place.The city centre is at the bottom of a steep valley, with all the surrounding districts climbing steeply up the sides and out on to the plateau above.The streets are chaotic and the buildings are held together with bits of tape and elastic bands, more reminiscent of parts of Delhi than of anywhere else we've been in Latin America.The city centre is just one sprawling market place, and it's easily the best place to buy...

¡Hola! As Eddy once said: 'Taxi - the Copacabana'; although I'm pretty sure he was talking about that beach in Rio de Janeiro and not this dusty old tourist trap just inside the Bolivian border.We developed a kind of love-hate relationship with Copacabana.At first it was an annoying place - we arrived without a cent in Bolivian money and, despite being a border town, Copacabana didn't have an ATM (apart from one that didn't accept either Visa or Mastercard!...