Hola from Bolivia! We had another easy peasy overland border crossing, this time into Bolivia. The first thing we noticed after crossing the border was that all the locals are really small and their dress sense is quite old fashioned compared to what we're used to, but we love their brightly coloured chunky knits and ponchos! Colette even bought 2, they're so warm and cosy as everything is made out of llama wool. We had a whole day travelling to the small town of Tupiza, where we stayed in a lovely little hotel close to the main square, which is where we all headed out to eat. The restaurants were all very quaint with only about four or five tables in each but the atmosphere was still good. We have also noticed that most menus in Tupiza, and here in Uyuni are very similar all specialising in pizza :) We managed to get a pizza, garlic bread, real fruit juice and water for only £5 each so we loved it! The next day was the worst drive of the whole trip. It was only 200km but it took us 10 hours! We had to travel through the Andes, the road was basically just very uneven gravel, sending up a lot of dust so the windows had to stay shut most of the way. It was also rather windy which meant we had to go soooo slowly. The scenery was absolutely stunning though, which helped pass the time. We tried to take pictures but they didn't show how beautiful the landscape was. We only passed 3 tiny villages, none of which had food for us to buy for lunch or fuel, so it was a panic to reach a petrol station before we ran out. We ran out of the main tank and had to use the reserve tank, which was only just enough to get us to our next town. Being in the middle of the mountains there were of course no toilets so we had to make do so fresco! This combined with a few poor people having an awful stomach bug made this journey awful for them! We stopped in a tiny little village for lunch (leftovers off the truck, fair play to the cooks it tasted pretty good) there were no more than 30 houses there and we didn't realise we had parked the truck right by a school. All the children were shy at first but soon got braver and loved posing for photos. One boy even ran after the truck when we left. We were struck by the poverty here. Bolivia is the poorest country in South America, although the people are poor, they were all smiling, the kids were so cute when we shared our chocolate cake filled with dulche de leche with them, and we gave all our leftovers to the people of the village. We finally reached our next town, Uyuni, and went straight out for food. We were so hungry we just went in the first place we saw. The first thing we noticed was the Justin Bieber CD playing on repeat, but as we had already ordered drinks we thought we'd stay. We didn't think things could go much further downhill after Bieber playing so loud we could barely hear eachother, but they did! Another group of people from our tour came in long after us and still got their food before us, and even when ours eventually came, Katie's sandwich didn't come til 15 minutes after everyone else's, when it did come it was the smallest meal the world has ever seen. Luckily one of the boys shared his pizza with her so she didnt have to have 3 desserts as threatened. Today we visited what Uyuni is famous for, the salt flats! These salt flats are the biggest in the world, with completely flat salt stretching as far as the eye can see. This is where everyone takes all the clever perspective photos which we will upload ASAP! We also saw how the salt was collected and packaged, and had a lovely lunch of chicken and pasta on the flats before visiting a train cemetery, which had trains once robbed by the Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy and also the first train than ran in Bolivia. Now it is just like a massive playground so you'll also be getting photos of us climbing and playing on the wrecks- great fun! We've loved it so far in Bolivia and our next stop is Potosi, the highest city in the world which should be amazing!