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03/09/24 Today we waved goodbye to the desert. Though I loved my time here, I was ready to return to something slightly above 0% humidity. My poor hair and lizardy skin was suffering. Alex, on the other hand, loved it. We were packed on time and actually left early for once! The woman in charge… Read more

31/08/24-03/09/24 31/08/24 Having slept well, we woke feeling refreshed in the bright Atacaman sunlight. There was a fully stocked and functioning kitchen that we could make use of and a real coffee machine; we hadn’t had any since Sucre so this was a delight. We didn’t have time to hang about as we had to… Read more

30/08/24-03/09/24 The border crossing. This was one of the longest and most drawn out thus far. We joined a queue that didn’t seem to be moving at all and stood in the freezing wind for close to an hour as we crept towards the one customs desk that was processing people exiting and entering. Nonsense.… Read more

As we have now passed the halfway point of our South American trip, I find myself missing certain things from home which is, perhaps, unsurprising. Therefore I intend to have a good old whinge about it. Consider yourself warned. The biggest thing for me is cooking, particularly really good vegetarian dishes (famous baked mushroom gnocchi… Read more

28-30/08/24 Day 1 The start to our tour was at a respectable time in the morning, so we didn’t feel too stressed. Inexplicably they came to pick us up despite us being minutes from the tour office where we went to get sorted. It all felt a bit hectic at first, and we were worried… Read more

26-27.08.24 We return to our heroes at the bus station… Yeah they changed their tickets no problem. Just explained we picked the wrong month and the changed it for us no charge. Phew! This is going to be a shortish entry… arguably as there probably isn’t much to say! After we had sorted out the… Read more

23-26.08.24 A short flight from La Paz and we were in Sucre. Well, the airport which is far from the actual town but still. This is the first time that a local taxi was the only option rather than Uber or the other one. Luckily it was the price we expected and a very relaxed… Read more

20-23.08.24 I’ll be honest, after the hike and the journey we had some serious recovering to do. We are delicate flowers and the ordeal was great. As such, I must be honest and say we were very lazy tourists in La Paz and really didn’t see all that much of it! In fact, we didn’t… Read more

20.08.24 Our ferry to Isla del Sol was to leave a 9am and we had to be at the place we bought the tickets from at 8:30am to leave our bags and get information. Despite the walk from the office to the ferry being less than 5 minutes, I immediately got time-blindness and thus insisted… Read more

19-20.08.24 I was surprised when we (Alex) were travel planning to find out that there are multiple Copacabanas beyond the famous beachy-budgie-smuggler-enthusiast area of Rio de Janeiro. The small, lakeside town on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca is one of them and boy was it an experience, albeit with fewer budgie-smugglers on account of… Read more