We arrived back in Uyuni from our salt flats tour at around 3pm on Wednesday 21 March. It turned out our whole car group wanted to get to Sucre in a hurry, so we immediately walked to the only airline office in the town (TAM - a military airline) to enquire. The flight to Sucre is only on Fridays and is not too expensive (around R250) so Michelle and Ferencia helped us get tickets. Once sorted, we went straight to our hostal for a much-needed hot shower. That ev...

After about 45 minutes driving, the road changed from tar to dirt, signaling our arrival in Bolivia. The border migration office is basically just a small mud hut in the middle of the desert. Here our minibus dropped us off and we split into two groups of six to fit into the two 4x4's (both Toyota Land Cruiser's - all the tour companies seem to use them exclusively.) South Africans need a visa for Bolivia, so we had to hand our passports to our driver who would g...