Saturday 18th April I don't sleep well and welcome the morning. We have breakfast and pack our stuff. We checkout and walk to the church. All is closed and locked up. We walk around the town and later on our way back it's still locked up. Maybe no church today. The internet is bad and it's virtually impossible to find info on churches on the internet. We go back to the hotel and wait in the lobby until 1pm. We start our journey to the salt flats by 4x4 today. ...

Friday 17th April We don't have to leave on the bus until 2pm. Lots of time to shower and do my hair! And pack and post my blogs. Don't forget sterilising water. We meet at 10.30 to go out for traditional volcano soup made from corn and veges. We catch taxis there. Our taxi driver brought his car recently for $9000usd for a car probably 2-4 grand in NZ or au. So expensive! They didn't make vegetarian soup today sadly. There are 3 of us veges. Mal and I still o...

Thursday 16th April We don't have to get up early but we are awake anyway. We have breakfast and get ready to tour the zinc & silver mine. The bus collects us and takes us to an 'office' to get changed into cover-alls. It's not an office except for the clothes. We also buy gifts for the miners: a choice between coco leaves, drinks, no filter cigarettes, 96% alcohol, or two types of dynamite. Lots of good choices :p. we choose a drink and coco leaves. We ge...

Wednesday 15th April There's no rush to get up this morning. We have breakfast and pack up our stuff. Then wait around for the bus to pick us up at 10. We are off to Potosi about 3.5hours away. It's apparently the highest city in the world. We see quite a few goat herders on the way. I nap on the bus and when we arrive at our hotel we go out for lunch. I order falafels and mal pizza. The food takes forever to come. Ours maybe an hour. There are only 4 small fal...

Tuesday 14th April We have a free day so no rushes. We enjoy breakfast at the hotel. We ask our CEO somewhere to get Malcolm's hair cut. On the way we go shopping for saltena's and local chocolate. We struggle to communicate, but we get something through and hair and beard cut; 50 bolivianos. We continue on the the cemetery. It's gated and like a park. The walls are the burial place and the ends are the 'headstones'. Lots of them have lockable glass ends that c...