After experiencing by far the worst night bus so far (12 hours of bumpy roads and a freezing breeze due to bus windows that wouldn't shut at an altitude of 4000m) we arrived in Uyuni. The town itself was tiny with very little to do so we booked into a hostel to sleep before sorting out a three day tour of the famous salt flats and surrounding area. The next morning we set off at 11am heading first to a 'train cemetery' which has the train stolen by Butch Cassidy...

After leaving Puno we took a long day bus over the Bolivian border to La Paz, the highest capital city in the world. Unfortunately we were transferred to a different bus company when we got to customs which was rubbish - instead of being dropped off at the La Paz bus terminal at 9pm we were left in the cemetery district (apparently very dangerous) at 11.30pm! La Paz was fairly nice as we spent our first full day exploring the cities parks, plazas and markets on...