day 1: We met up with our jeep group (3 french people and 1 fellow Brit), tour guide and cook and set off on our 4 day drive. We stopped and saw many different land formations - amazing rock shapes, many lamas, several small communities (that until recently didnt have transport back to a city to gain supplies to walked the long distance. They now are able to get a lift to town once a week). We stayed the night in San Antonio de Lipez (extremely cold!!) where ...

Tupiza Arrive from Potosi at 7am and wondered with a nice french couple to the nearsest hostel! Found a Cheap HI one close to the bus terminal. Booked onto the salir de Uyuni Tour which after long debates we went with the standard package of a 4 day round trip (not get dropped off at the border of Chile, miss half the attractions and pay extra for border crossings!) We enjoyed the day in the quiet bolivian town and took to horseback for a 3 hour ride! We rode a...

arrived in Potosi after an 'ínteresting'bus journey, full of many locals and very bumpy. Not much happens in Potosi itself (its where the guys queued up to mine in The Motorcycle Diaries), its a pretty depressing little town, the main attraction being going down the silver mines and watching what happens. That really didnt appeal to us (seeing 11 year olds mine) so we decided to spend our 1 day here in the natural hot springs in Tarapaya just outside of Poto...

An overnight bus took us from La paz to Sucre. Began at 6.30pm and arrived at 8.30am! Journey was a lot better than expected with reclining seats and loads of legs space - a make shift bed! A burst tyre along the way and random stops in the middle of nowhere added to the fun. Also we got to watch half (as then the fake dvd broke!) of police academy and scary movie 3, in spanish! Sucre is so preety, we've both fallen in love with the place. Be a great place to c...

7th August: We took an early bus (7am) to the border of Bolivia at Yunguyo where we had a very confusing border crossing (had to go to many placs to get passports stamped, money changed, and then work out where our bus had got to), had a lunch break at copacabana (full of stret markets) and then spent ages trying to work out our next bus (Bolivians make it all very confusing!!). the strangest part of our journey had to be the lake crossing (which we didnt know ...