The road from Uyuni to Tupiza through the mountains was very picturesque. It was precarious at times though - at one point it was just wide enough for our truck - I stuck my camera out the window to take a picture and the photo shows that there was about one foot of leeway next to a sheer drop! I couldn't bear to look... Thankfully the weather remained dry during the journey (the area is prone to landslides when it rains); it rained when we arrived in Tupiza so w...

San Vicente is a small mining town, high up in the mountains on the road from Uyuni to Tupiza. It is famous as the place where Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid were killed in 1908. I stopped there briefly to see the small museum about the bandits, including what are claimed to be their bones.

I had an incredible three days in the Salar de Uyuni salt flats - I visited such diverse places, including some of the most unusual, beautiful and interesting things I've ever seen in my life! It started and ended in the small dusty town of Uyuni. It had been a long bus journey from Potosí and I was glad I wasn't sitting next to the window as it seemed a bit hairy at times - the bus leaning at an awkward angle, very close to the edge of the road. We arrived in ...

I took a taxi from Sucre to Potosí with Denise and Carla. We made it in record time, despite stopping to take photos of some amazing rainbows among the mountains along the way, because our driver was going at breakneck speed. We played some good music on the taxi ride - Carla has been educating us in reggaetón music which is very popular here, Llamada de Emergencia by Daddy Yankee has been playing on the radio and in clubs everywhere we've been in South Americ...

Although Sucre is the capital of Bolivia, it's a relatively small, quiet city with a slow pace of life - it feels more relaxed and safer than La Paz though nowhere near as modern. The overnight bus from La Paz was surprisingly comfortable; we watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button along the way. I arrived on a Sunday so the town was pretty sleepy - hardly anyone around and not many shops open. I just walked around town, admiring the pretty buildings and man...