Day 30: 30/7/12 Happy birthday Shell!! Hope you had a good time at the races! This morning we had to be gone by 6 so was pretty cold! Our first stop was some geysers and we got there before the sun came up fully so that we could see he light of the sun coming up through the steam from the geysers. You could see all the mud boiling away in the ground. It was absolutely freezing- I thought I'd lost my fingers and toes!! Took a long time to recover! Next stop was...

Day 29: 29/07/12 Last night there were six of us in a dorm- me, Anna n Hannah from new Zealand, Joanne from canada, Janine from switzerland and Volker from Germany. We had fun getting ready for bed in the cold. We could hear people in the next room talking- obviously salt bricks are not good for sound insulation! There was also a baby crying somewhere. I slept okay though. At 5 another group was woken up and made lots of noise so I was awake from then really. We...

Day 28: 28/7/12 We didn't have to get up too early this morning. Had breakfast, went into uyuni to get water and postcards! Then came back to the hotel and watched some Olympics. I shared the room with Anna and Hannah from New Zealand so we watched the cycling and gymnastics together- didn't understand a word of it! Raging I'm missing the games! At 11:30 we left for Uyuni. We stopped at the train cemetery first. That was weird. All the trains that they didn't ...