High Altitude again

So we left Rowena and Michael in Nazca and we started heading to Bolivia.

First stop was Puno on lake Titicaca, at 3800 meters a shock to the system when you have come from sea level!!!

We spent a night in Puno as a stop over before heading to La Paz. After 17 hours on bus we could not face another 7!!

We got a 7 am bus from Peru to Bolivia via Copocabana. Leaving Peru was really sad we have had an amazing time in this country, its one of the best in South America. I have heard lots of people say that as well.

Arriving in La Paz at 3600 meters was not so bad having had the previous night higher in Puno.

For the first time in South America we checked in to a "Party Hostel" to live the La Paz nightlife to its full! Everyone in the hostel was at a minimum of 4 years younger than us, most of them 6 or more...at that age it makes quite a difference, we were like the golden oldies!!!

Anyway buy one get one free Mojitos went rather well and we finally retired to our beds at 5 am.

Now a 3600 meter hangover is nothing to be scoffed at, it makes life even harder than a sea level hangover. Needless to say we did not achieve a lot that day!!!

We have now booked to go on a 3 day trek called the Condirri trek, this passes through 3 5000 meter passes and leaves us at the Hyana Potosi base camp at 4700 meters. From here we climb to the high altitude base camp at 5200 meters, we sleep then set of for our biggest adventure...the Hyana Potosi summit at 6088 meters.

So for now this is a quick update but expect loads of stories and photos when we return on Sunday!!!