After the (?my) disappointment of finding all museums shut in Sucre on Sundays, today is the day! We get off to a bad start as one major museum has relocated. This is compounded by walking to a highly rated restaurant on the midday sun, only to find it shut on Mondays! Team Hall not pleased (note the use of British understatement ...) So the second, and main museum of the day, is in fact the relocated morning museum, now strategically located at the top of a ...

The guilty pleasure of a lie-in is enjoyed by us all and breakfast in the sun sets us up nicely for a day strolling round Sucre, snacking and shopping, as all the multitude of museums are shut. One early bird of a textile trader catches the Hall early worm. One textile piece, one poncho and 2 handmade hats for 900 bolivianos (under 90 quid) are sold to us before any of the other stalls in the arcade are open - Alfie is very happy with his poncho, although I wond...

Last night's dormitory accommodation with a single shared outside toilet and no running water, let alone flush, redefined basic accommodation, but the dawn was wonderful and the snow the fell overnight adds an ethereal quality. However the mood is disrupted by reports that the Chilean border is shut due to the weather conditions. Another 4X4 that has been shadowing our itinerary has 3 occupants who wish to go to Chile and a German couple for whom this represents...

Tour day two starts with a standard breakfast, and all 11 expeditionaries ignore the carefully scrambled eggs. I'm sure they won't be wasted though. We saddle up (get in the 4X4) and head out to find a number of different coloured lagoons (red, green, blue are mentioned), find flamingoes, and visit the highest desert in s

After the first eggless breakfast in nearly living memory (oh, alright - 3 weeks) we trooped off to receive our tour briefing from Red Planet Expeditions. We hire what turn out to be furry sleeping bags, meet our co-expeditionaries, Joel and Naiana, drop the bags we don't need at the back of the store and mount our 4X4 for the journey with Santiago at the wheel and head into the salt flats. The salt flats are brilliant, reflected white under a cloudless blue sk...