After a nice short bus journey of 6 hours we arrived in Cuzco, the heart of inca land!!!It was saturday night and we were all in need of a good night out so we all went out for a nice meal then it was off to sample the nightlife of cuzco!!! after working our way through a few bars we ended up in Mama Africa's, cuzco's party central!!! loads of dancing and drinking later and it was of to...
aswell as saying goodbye to Bolivia we were also saying goodbye to our great guide for the last 3 weeks Ursula!!!!!!!!
But we were also saying hello to our new guide for the next 2 weeks Jose!!!!
It was another early start for a bus journey that took us accross the Bolivian border into Peru! We had some amazing views along lake titicaca( the worlds highest lake) on the way to Puno our first st...
After we were all refreshed in Uyuni after our 3 day desert crossing it was on the bus again! This time it was onmly a 7 hour bus ride to Potosi!
Potosi is officially the highest city in the world sitting at about 4000 metres! we were all beggining to suffer from altitude sickness and even doing the simplest of things was a major task!
We did a tour of the local mine that has been producing sil...
Destinations visited: Sucre, Potosi, Salar de Uyuni, La Paz
Atakama 3 day crossingMar 03, 2008
Well after a well rested night and hot shower in San Pedro it was an early 45 min bus journey to the border of Bolivia..so bye.. Chilli and the start of a 3 day adventure on the Atakama desert crossing!! At the border we were met by 3, 4X4 vehicles (they had broken seats and no gauges worked on the dash board!!) which were our mode of transport for the next 3 days
The first day everyo...
20th february!!!!!
Annas birthday. pity we had to spend it in buenos airies airport where we were delayed 5 hours!
Eventually we arrived in Santiago where we start our 40 day trip with G.A.P travel.
We were introduced to the new gang that we would be travelling with and it looked like we struck it lucky as everyone in the group seemed to be up for a good time!
Our first couple of days of t...