On the way to Cochabamba...

After the really necessary visits at the dentist´s and the dermatologist´s we´re going to travel on to Cochabamba today...with 4 repaired teeth more and a wisdom tooth and a unwanted pet (just google "dermatobia hominis"...) less we can continue our trip...

National alert in Bolivia...

It is raining and pouring and raining and ...
After a week of heavy rainfalls many houses and roads have been destroyed and most rivers are impossible to cross (bridges are rare in Bolivia). We read about all that in the newspaper, we bought in the bus to Sucre...
A journey of normally 12 hours - We luckily made it in "only" 26!
Yesterday we met our first hospitality club contact here and learned a lot about Sucre and bolivian politics...
In 2 or 3 days we will continue to Oruro or Cochabamba...

Rainy season...

We didn´t go to Samaipata because the weather at the moment is a little bit too wet for trekking and sightseeing. Now we definitly know that rainy season indeed means RAIN!
Today we will continue to Sucre...hopefully the weather there is a little bit drier...

In Bolivia again!

Thanks to our rally-busdriver we reached Santa Cruz after 23 hours and with only one flattened tire.
Today we will do some sight-seeing and tomorrow we´re going to visit the small town of Samaipata...

On the way to Bolivia...

After a few days in the capital of Paraguay we're travelling on to Santa Cruz/Bolivia.
It's going to be a hard trip: 30hs in an old bus on one of the continents worst roads - the ruta trans chaco... If we are lucky and it doesn´t rain...if there is rain the journey could take days...

Finally in Asuncion...

Today we reached Asuncion...finally!!!
Our plan to leave Uruguay per road didn´t work out because of the strikes (uruguayan paper factory on the Rio Uruguay). The border to Argentina is closed again and so we had to leave the country the way we reached it - per boat (over the Rio de la Plata to Buenos Aires)
From there we took a bus right away and after 18 hours we are in the capital of Paraguay.
It is incredibly hot and wet here (over 40 degrees celcius!)...

The cards arrived!!!!

Today we got the good news that our bank cards arrived in Montevideo! We don´t have to wait any more!!!
Tomorrow we´re going to stay in Mvd to organise some things and at sunday we plan to be on the road again... heading north to Asuncion/Paraguay!

Still in Montevideo...

After a few days on the beach (Punta del Diablo, Cabo Polonio, La Paloma) we made our way back to Montevideo to see if our bank cards already arrived...what they didn´t. But we found a bank which accepted our deformed credit card and so we have one problem less...
Before that we just had about 300pesos left (about 10 Euro) - That´s not much to live, not even in Uruguay...
We are going to stay in Montevideo a few days more and then continue our trip up north...if the cards already arrived...