We arrived in Uyuni on Alan´s birthday in the evening. We had time to find a decent hostel, and sorted out a tour the next day to the salt flats. There are hundreds of companies and tours leaving everyday so it was easy to find one at a decent price. We set off the next day quite early in our jeep. There were six of us in total, and our guide/driver. We were joined by another English couple, and a American and his wife who was Bolivian. It was pretty cosy in the...

Our journey from Santa Cruz to Potosi was the longest so far. The people who sold us the tickets lied to us and told us it was only 16 hours but it ended up as more than 20. It was on a rubbish overcrowded bus with no toilet. We were the only gringos on the bus. We also got stuck for over an hour in the mud in the middle of the night. Therearen´t many paved roads in Bolivia. We arrived in the early afternoon and stayed for only two nights as we were in quite a r...

We checked out of our horrible room in Corumba nice and early to make our way over to Bolivia. As the small towns of Corumba and Quijarro are right next to each other, we crossed the border fairly easily. We did have to wait an hour for immigration to open though, as we had forgotten that Bolivia was an hour behind and the guards were still having there siesta. Once all the formalities were completed we took a short taxi ride to Quijarro train station, ready to...

From Paraguay we got the bus to Campo Grande, Brazil which is the gateway to the Pantanal national park. When we got of the bus we were surrounded by touts trying to sell us tours. One knew a cheap hotel so we went there with him and it was fine. The next day they woke us up early offering to book us a tour that day. I didn´t appreciate that. Anyway we said no, then had a look on the internet doing some research about the different tours you can do. We were stru...

We spent six nights in total in Paraguay. Went entered the country close to Igauzu Falls, after a bus journey of about an hour that passed briefly through Brazil. We crossed at a town called Cuidad del Este, which is a popular shopping town, with people crossing in for the day from Argentina and Brazil to buy cheap stuff. We were travelling with this guy called Hamish from New Zealand who we met at the hostel and wanted to go the same way as us. More about him la...