Leaving Uyuni we head north to Potosi. This was a very wealthy city based on the silver mines which produced the silver for the world and the coins. It is a large city situated on the mountain where the silver was found. The streets were incredibly narrow and steep either up or down! we found a hostel that allowed us to park at the back and charged us for one room which gave us access to a shower. The traffic was dreadful and it was very dangerous just walking al...

Climbing out of San Pedro de Atacama we reached the border post to enter Bolivia. This was a small hut with lots of people coming and going. We queued up amidst all the people on trips in 4x4s and were told that to register the truck we had to go somewhere else, 15km from the border. We entered the national park and had to pay £30 which we thought was expensive as we did not get any info or even a map. as usual there were no roads and the distances are vast. The...