Day three of Bolivian Jeep tour: We got up especially early to check out the sunrise over the largest and highest salt plains in the world. Because we were wearing hat and gloves and running around on white salt it looks like it is snow in the photos. Don't be fooled. It is actually salt, I should know I tasted it. Because the completely white horizon distorts your perspectives, tourists like us are meant to create loads of wacky photos of standing on eggs and ...

Day two of Bolivian jeep tour: We saw lots more things that we took photos of like the desert tree (a rock in the desert that looks like a tree) and more lakes that were weird colours. Things were looking up. It had stopped snowing and it was a sub-tropical 2 degrees celcius. We went slightly lower in altitude and only the headaches remained. Our driver was a lot more confident with his driving too. Although there were no roads, there were sometimes little tr...

In San Pedro de Atacama we booked a 3 day jeep tour of the Bolivian Altiplano, starting from Chile and crossing the border on the first day. On the first morning of the tour we found out the border between Chile and Bolivia was closed because of heavy snow the day before. We spent all morning waiting in a restaurant in San Pedro for the border to open and we left in a minibus at midday. In about 30 minutes we went from San Pedro de Atacama (2500 metres above s...