Boarder Crossings To Bolivia

Before leaving Peru we went to Lake Titikaka, the highest navigatable lake in the world-it is HUGE. Here we hopped on a boat out to the reed islands. These are islands made from reeds that float around the place and people live on them and everything they live in and use is made from reeds. I know it sounds insane, infact when I was on the island i was thinking, if I told anyone about this they wouldnt believe me. I will put photos up just so people can get a better idea of what I mean.

Shortly after our Peruvian adventures we finally reached our first boarder crossing into Bolivia. This all went without a hitch minus some hungover heads from the night before-myself included. After hours of awful Bolivian roads we reached La Paz-the highest capital city in the world. This was clearly evident on arrival, I noticed it was a hell of alot more difficult to breathe along with the narrow uphill roads of La Paz this made everything an effort.

It is a bustling city where people mainly trade on the street. The woman were dressed much like that of Peruvian women but all notably wear bowler hats propped on their heads. Much of the city is a black market where stuff is sold at the side of the road, everything from clothes to playstations to fresh fruit juice. There was also a witches market where you could by llama foeteses-apparently they are used as house warming gifts, very strange.

After a few days in La Paz we ventured on to Potosi, the highest city in the world. Small and unusual, the place was somewhat stuck in the past as nothing opened on a sunday. We arrived on a sunday and found it very difficult to find somewhere to eat. As it was so high up though, the sunsets were amazing. After one night here we went on to Uyuni on the most trecherous road of all time. 8 hours of a dirt road through the Bolivian desert is nay a fun day.

We arrived in Uyuni, a ghost town which is mainly used for tourists to the salt flats and as a military base. Obviously our reason for staying was the former. The next morning we got up and got into a 4x4 to go out to the salt flats. Google them they are incredible. We got out there and had lunch, visited the salt Hotel, a hotel literally made out of salt. Took some perspective photos and just took it all in really. This would be our last taste of Bolivia as we were out to Argentina in the following days.