29/6/09 Uyuni to bushcamp Both our cook groups had a really early start to visit the local markets in Uyuni to collect food for the next couple of days but the markets didn't open until 8 so we had a quick breakfast first. We shopped in the markets which was quite a challenge with our limited Spanish and the locals no English. We headed back to the hotel with our shopping and loaded up the truck before setting off out of Uyuni. We are heading for the town of Tar...

27/6/09 Potosi to Uyuni We travelled to Uyuni via the desolate Bolivian landscape and pretty rough roads. Uyuni is a town on the edge of Salar de Uyuni which is the worlds largest salt flat at 3653m altitude and 12000 meters square. The salt is the remains of Lago Minchin which covered most of Bolivia. We dropped off our laundry and went to the internet cafes to try and do our blog as we were a bit behind. The first three cafes had really slow connections and it...

25/6/09 La Paz to Potosi We left La Paz early to head for Potosi a town centered around the silver mining industry. Phil called the UK to check our onward flights and got ripped off with the hotel phone charges to the tune of US$14 (10 pounds) for 5 whole minutes!!!! Then the taxi taking us to the truck park was double the price it should have been. The driver said that he was charging extra because of our bags....is that not what a taxi is for??? As we are in B...

20/6/09 Cuzco to Bushcamp One We left Cuzco early to start a hopefully long but smooth journey to La Paz. We are unable to travel on the road we came in on as it has road blocks and burnt out bridges. We started well on sealed roads with no problems ...or so we thought. Then the trouble started as we were diverted onto a mountain pass where the main road to Brazil form Peru was being constructed. We were heading for a place called Moldanado and kept following th...