Hello!!! Ok, haven´t kept up with this blog for a while so prob gona be lots to tell.

We left Santa Cruz and headed to Sucre, Bolivia´s capital. This was a gorgeous town, very bright. White buildings and churches. Here we stayed two nights in the nicest hostel, ran by a Dutch bloke who was so friendly.

Also staying at the hostel were a British couple, who were cycling, yes on a bike, around the world! They were stuck waiting for a part for one of their bikes! Dad, (Raymondo) that could be your next route!! ha ha!!

We visited the museum, which are what most of the pictures are from. It was really good! Very interesting, suprised myself at how interested i actually was! All about Bolivia´s struggle for independence, the king of spain and the work of the Jesuits.

Our guide spoke in English, which always helps. He was really good, he also explained why some of the women in Peru and Bolivia wear bowler hats, its because they were originally brought over from England to be sold to the men, but the men did go for it, so they changed their target market, to women, and for some reason the women did go for it!!

After Sucre, we headed to Potosi, you have to pronounce this po-to-si, otherwise people think your silly and very English! ha! It 4,600 meters above sea level. The drive in to the town didn´t fill me with high hopes for Potosi, very bare and dusty, but once we arrived in the centre of town it was great. It had a buzzy atmosphere, and everyone was out in the evening/night. During the day we looked around the town and took some snaps of the "red silver mountain". This was where the silver was mined and made into coins, putting Potosi on the map!

We visited another museum, this one however could possibly be the dullest museum ever. Now it could just been that we were both starving hungry, and couldn´t concentrate, or it was actually the dullest museum in the world. It was all about the original making of the silver coins. Thrilling stuff. To be fair there was a few really good bits, like the room full of mummies, preserved on the mountain because of the cold temperatures and high altitude. They were very spooky.

So after Potosi, off we went to Uyuni!! I was so excited! We got on the bus and headed on our way. The bus was fantastic, the views were brilliant but the roads were a bit dodgey!! Lots of cliff edge driving and bumpy rocky roads.

Once we arrived in Uyuni, we found a cheap hostal, that was still under construction. We were the only ones staying there, It had plastic sheets and the door to our room didn't quite shut, Ha!! but the man who ran it was nice enough and it was just round the corner from the tour agency, so we stayed.

So the next day we started our trip! Us two, two Aussies and two Argentinians, from Patagonia.

It was brilliant, the salt flats were so bright you needed to squint even with your sunglasses on! We began our photo taking, and drove further and further out on to the salt! On the way to the furthest point in the salt desert we stopped at a little pool, that we could go fishing for salt crystals in! Once we were as far as we were going on the salt, we stopped for some video shots and to see the salt bricks! We stayed for sunset, which was beautiful and got the fantastic photo of our group jumping. That night we stayed at the salt hotel!! It was brilliant! Our guide told us that every salt hotel, has to be rebuilt after 10 years as the salt bricks erode away!

Day 2 on our tour, we were of in to the Atacama. We stopped to see the mountain of seven colours, which was beautiful and Oberd (our guide) told us that nobody travels out to that point apart from drug smugglers, trying to cross the boarder to Chile, however the last Chiliean president had land mines put along the boarder for this reason!! Dangerous stuff! We also stopped at the Red lagoon, and others along the way to see the stunning pink flaningos!!

Day 3, was amazing! We were up before sunrise, and headed to the semi active volcano! This was probably my favourite part! We could put our hands in the eggy steam coming up from under us! There was a pool of boiling, bubbling mud and twisting tornados of steam rising up! Very cool! We then drove up to the highest we have been, 5000 meters above sea level! Then off to the last lagoon, that was full off asbestos, arsnic and magnesium. When the wind blew it mixed them all up to create a greeny colour. At this lagoon we were still stood in Bolivia, but over to our right was Chilie, and to our left Argentina!

It was time to go, we said goodbye to our new Argentinian amigos and off to cross the boarder. It was quite a change, All of a sudden we were driving on proper tarmac roads, with painted road markings and signs! A little faffing about at the border and we were in Chilie!!

On our way to La Serena on the coast, hope to make our way to Patagonia if we can!! Chilie is alot pricier than Bolivia in a big way, so we will have to stick to the budget a bit more!

Hope your are all ok, sending you all squeezey hugs.