Hotel La Joya La Paz

... and my camera had been flooded in my pocket when I went into the river. Also the bike would need some repairs...<br><br>Equipped with this new information, I decided to wait for the rear guide and discuss before I set off again. He bandaged me up, fixed the bike and I said I was good to go. He agreed to let me continue, although I do admit that I cycled like a losertron after that and slowed down to mid-pack instead of leading. Obviously I was very humiliated when I caught up with ...

... other people. Hilarious. Actually, at the time my sense of humour wasn´t doing so well and I was fairly annoyed, but now I think it´s pretty hilarious. <br><br>I´m sure something else noteworthy must have happened since I last wrote, but I can´t think of much. Tomorrow we´re going to the Jungle and the Pampas, which promises to be AMAZING, I will tell more when I get back. And now I´m off to bed!<br><br>xoxoxo Em<br>

... you get shoved walking down the road - noisy. Not really me. Much preferred more satellite cities.<br><br>We have dinner tonight @ 7pm with new people joining the tour for the next part to Santiago. Then Im early to bed and early to rise in order to catch my transfer at 6.30am to El Alto airport to start the first leg of my journey home.<br><br>Much love to you all and I shall see you all Sunday morning!<br><br>Fran xxxx

... that smelled of stale beets and inconsistent digestion and you´ve got yourself one wild and woolly Bolivian bus ride.<br><br>Regardless, we now find ourselves in Uyuni, a dusty little town with a frontier feel where we´ll be spending just one night before embarking on a 4 day 3 night 4x4 tour of the Southwestern Bolivian Salt Flats &#8211; which are, apparently, chock full of salt. We´ll keep you posted.<br><br><br><br>In the news:<br><br>Hammock Alleges Sexual ...

... to capture us all as we came past him but as we followed down a few minutes later we arrives at a scene of carnage as Javier had somehow hit an oncoming car head on. Luckily he got up with just a few cuts and bruises but the front of the car had quite a dent, yet his bike seemd okay, go figure. After that reality check we carried on down the mountain and to my surprise I had been firmly at the front of the pack, not that it was a race, but it was really fun trying to test my ...

... like that. We have met so many people who have been 'robbed' by thieves, or, the police. In some cases, they've been robbed by thieves, gone to the police and then been robbed by them! our friend Chris was 'delightfully' robbed by the Colombian Police when he was stopped. They told him 'they collect usd' he, as quick as you like pretended he only had Pesos, at which point one of them took out a 20 usd note and said 'see, it looks like this' and something about it ...

... in Lima.I set myself in for the long haul. My sore throat seemed to be worsening as the journey went on and I was beginning to get paranoid about them quarantining my ass in Lima after swabbing my germ filled mouth after a mental flight. 3 films later and a hardcore diet of orange sandwiches, ice cream, free wine and ridiculous dried rice, we arrived in Lima.<br><br>Oh the chaos! After too many hours without sleep, my eyes were beginning to bleed and my intestines beginning ...

... the lake with hills and snow capped mountains in the distance.<br>The road ends up in a village square, we take the only road out and end up at the Bolivian Naval Base. Yes another land locked country with a navy! We turn round before we are put in irons and go back to the village square and see another way out. There are two "barge type boats", loose term, with very dodgy looking boarding planks. We are directed to board over loose ...