Rio to New York in 6 Months

We finally left La Paz after nine days and headed for Copacabana and Lake Titicaca. We were looking forward to a bit of relaxation after La Paz. Copacabana is a little town on the edge of Lake Titicaca.

Lake Titicaca is the highest navigatable lake in the world at 3812 metres above sea level (12,536 Feet) and it has an surface area of 8372 sq/km. [read on]

A couple of days after I wrote the last post on La Paz we had our camera stolen which was a bit of a pain. We were at a big festival in the city and there were crowds of people and someone grabbed it out of the camera bag and ran off. There were so many people pushing around us I had no chance of catching them.

Thank god that we backed up the memory card after the salt flat trip or we would have lost so many memories. We had to stay an extra day in La Paz to get a police report for the insurance and to buy a new camera. Luckily I managed to find the same model camera so it worked out ok.

Since it happened I have been watching the camera like a hawk and keeping my hand over the bag. This is the first time we have had anything stolen in any country we have been to over the years. It had to happen sometime I suppose. We couldn´t beat the odds forever !!

James

We have been in La Paz for 4 days now and it has been good fun. We are staying in an area that is full of market stalls selling every imaginable item. The stalls are everywhere and people are just ... [Continue reading this entry]

We got dropped to a placed called Uyuni after the salt flat trip. There was not much to do there so this post will be brief.

We went to a restaurant and I saw that there was llama fondue on the ... [Continue reading this entry]

While we were in Tupiza we booked a 4 day jeep tour to go and see the Uyuni salt flats. We have been looking forward to this part of the trip since we started planning it and we were not ... [Continue reading this entry]

We crossed the border from Argentina into Bolivia and made our way to the train station so we could buy a ticket. We had heard that the roads in Bolivia are quite bad (only about 5% of them are paved ... [Continue reading this entry]