Now there is nowt to do in Uyuni except organise a salt flat tour, we spent just one night here before our tour left the next morning, and the honest to god highlight was the all you can eat breakfast at the minute man, pancake heaven (no english muffins tho - gutted). We opted for a tour which was to take 3days and 2 nights and end up in San Pedro de Atacama in Chile.

The tour is in a large 4x4 and tour companions were Mariana, Ines and Sandra from Uruguay and Rudolf of Germany, by way of Argentina. Anyhow it became clear very quickly that these guys were awesome and so I took that as an omen and decided the trip would be a goodún.

Our trip started with a quick trip to the train graveyard, Iḿ not sure why it is there but it is and itś pretty cool, we then went to the salt flats and played at taking many silly pictures. We also saw a rocky canyon place, Salvador Dali s desert, the rock tree and several multicoloured lagoons, we stayed in a couple of totally freezing hostels at altitudes of over 4000m, drank the pisco creme that I was going to bring home (didnt think that it was likely to make it all the way to the uk) scared off a bunch of flamingos and on our last morning saw the geysers...

On arriving in San Pedro on Easter Weekend we found our hostel and since the little town in the desert was so nice we chilled out for a few days, almost got ejected by the hostel for making too much noise drinking round the fire at night and best of all on one night we went on an astronomy tour.. so so interesting to see all of the stars with such clarity out in the desert and learn about them and take photos of saturn.. awesome.

But tomorrow is the 27th and so we have a 23hour bus ride to Santiago.. uurf