hola todos, got into Sucre this morning, capital of Bolivia its home to one of the best univerisities in the Americas so it is quite a young place as you can imagine. the buildings here are all very old and pretty although not as stunning as i thought they would be, the city center was declared a UNESCO (?) world heritage site in 1991 and most of it has been preserved so it looks much as it did 100 years ago. the bus journey was horrendous, we had to jump on o...

hello, we are now in a small, remote town called Samaipata just south west of Santa Cruz. It took us 26 hours to get here after the idea of a somewhat shorter journey went out the window due to mud slides, one way roads and f***ing gigantic trucks. we wound our way down some mountains for a while and then it began to rain. it was madness, all the 'men' on the coach had to get out and push these bloody lorries, carrying assorted cargo from trees to metal housng ...

hello, we are in Cochabamba at the moment, it is a really nice city. Although it has much more of a european feel to it, they have definatley addopted the western ideals of beauty, they even have wedding shops selling white, western wedding gowns! it is quite a rich place, supposedly the wealthiest in Bolivia in terms of having a huge abundance of agricultural trade. the weather is gorgeous and there are some beautiful buildings. the only thing is that the pe...

hola todo, we are back in La Paz after our three day choro trail treck into the rainforest with just a tent, food and a compass... we survived!! It was absoloubtly beautiful, we started at 4800 meters and climbed down for a day to a gorgeous little village in the valley. god knows how these people survive in such unbelievably remote surcumstances. we camped just outside the village. the second day we got up before sunrise and trecked up and down deeper into ...

Hey, got to La Paz this morning. Mad city, not particualarly nice but havent seen much of it yet. There are hundreds of market stalls selling dried Llama foeti (how the hell do you spell that?) ie, unborn babies they are proper nasty, they also have whole dried frogs and loads of unidentifiable stuffed animals all used for medicinal purposes (aparantly). Travelled here from Copacobana, a really cool town on Lago Titicaca, very hippy. We caught a boat across...