at home. offf to uni

helooooooo, back from the jungle, had a fantstic time the amazon is just magical. we set off down the Rio negro, there are three types of water in the amazon. the rio negro contains the black water which is very acidic and thick which means that wildlife is not as rife as it is on the other rivers... but neither are mosquitoes!! we caught a boat at 9am and sailed for an hour or so to the meeting of the waters, the black and white waters meet at this point but d...

Sorry the comunication has been non existant in the last few days we have been travelling like nutters trying to get to Uyuni to meet Stefan and Emilio. We spent one day and night in Cochabamba, one day and night in Samaipata, 22 hours in Sucre(Bolivia's capital) and a total of 9 hours in Potosi. In all this time we have climbed inside a 30 meter statue of christ, visited a new volcanic lagoon, seen a rock carved by a pre Inca community 1000bc 200m long and 60m w...

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 ...