Sunday, April 26, 2009

Coroico Bolivia

This is a lovely place to escape the craziness of La Paz. We enjoyed 2 days of relaxation before returning to La Paz

Coroico is a nice hill top village in the middle of nowhere in Bolivia. Friendly local people.

We´re heading to another small town in Bolivia befor heading off to Puno and then on to Cusco


James has given up on the idea of the Inca trail as it is booked out so we´re taking our time to get to Cusco before flying to Lima on 30th April. We´re headin out of Lima on 2nd May

Thursday, April 23, 2009

La Paz is a crazy place (La Paz means The Peace in spanish!)

Well we have come and gone from La Paz

La Paz is a crazy city we wouldn´t really recommend apart from the fact its amazingly cheap.

Its amazing that is is at 3610 metres making it the highest capital city in the world and it also has the highest international airport for all you fact fiends! In fact you can get slight altitude sickness if you fly straight into here!

We´ve got used to it mostly as we have done it gradually across Bolivia.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia

We have made it to Uyuni but have got stuck here again like Tres Lagos so we hope to go to La Paz tomorrow evening by bus!

The place is amazing though, visited largest salt flats in the world today they´re amazing and never thought I would see so much salt in my life, enough to put my blood pressure up!

Despite getting stuck had a nice relaxing day in Uyuni today, its incredible as most of bolivia is at 3500 metres (over 10000 feet) so you get easily short of breath if you walk up a hill!