In the morning we had some breakfast, very basic bread and jam, then set off for the days adventures, though the hotel puppy didn't want Fergus to leave and tugged away at his shoe laces for a while. We are pretty sure we were supposed to go to a place called the Stone Army but we didn't. Our first stop was to view the smoking Volcan Ollague, 6000m high straddling the Bolivia/Chile border. We stopped off at a beautiful view point amongst some interesting red lav...

When we turned up at the office at around 10.15 it was a bit chaotic as there were two tours leaving for the 3 day trip, and a few others just for a day trip. We had included a ticket for a bus from the Bolivia/Chile border to San Pedro de Atacama in Chile, but of course they had forgotten to buy it and had to run off to purchase it for us. After standing around for close to an hour we finally left. Our tour guide seemed to be a freelancer rather than employed b...

We arrived in Uyuni after the Dakar Rally that had been in town had left and accommodation was finally available again. Fortunately we only spent one night there before setting off on our tour across the salt flats, as there really is nothing of any interest. Uyuni has one main pedestrian street with a whole bunch of restaurants along it, and in the surrounding streets it has a bunch of tour operators, and that's about it. There are some statues and old train re...

We arrived in Potosí just in time, about half an hour before it started raining big time, which meant our trudge up the hill to town wasn't miserably wet. Our hostel was actually an old hotel and pretty empty but not too far to walk to the Plaza de Armas. We made our way to the main square in the pouring rain, realising upon arriving there that sight seeing would be futile, instead finding ourselves enjoying coffee and cake in a café. Our budget doesn't allow ...

Given our late flight we didn't get into our hostel in Sucre until the early evening. It was a pretty cool place, with a bar and café area on the ground floor then 2 levels of rooms on top all around a central courtyard, plus a garden area out the back which had another bar under construction. That night was an all-you-can-eat Italian buffet which we partook in, managing to scoff about 3 plates each of pizza, pasta, salad and garlic bread each, making sure to ge...