Well, La Paz took us a bit by surprise! We started off on our long drive-day at 7am, driving up into the mountains again, round quite a lot of hairpin bends, where you could see the road ahead snaking round the mountainside at different levels, a bit like a giant helter- skelter, then after a couple of hours we continued through the flat and dusty landscape of the Altiplano, with snow capped mountain peaks visible on the horizon. As the hours went on, we began to...

Potosí So we left the dust and salt of Uyuni behind, and set off through the red mountains again for Potosí. The journey coming back didn't seem as long as it had on the way there, and we felt fine with the altitude, thanks to our little pills.  From a distance, Potosí looks like a shanty town, sprawling accross the hillside at just over 4,000m and down into the valley, but it was once the wealthiest town in South America. In the 17th and 18th centuries, t...

Tupiza to Uyuni We really enjoyed our rest day in Tupiza. Our heads were much clearer, but we still did everything really slowly. The fact that our room was on the second floor was a challenge in itself! The small town had a completely different atmosphere on a Monday morning, as it had been quite deserted on Sunday evening. We wandered around the market, which was crowded with little bowler-hatted ladies doing their shopping (some of them keep their money in th...

Sunday 13th Having eaten a rather dodgy meal last night, I took a dose of Imodium this morning, (just in case!), as we had the prospect of a 9 hour journey in the truck, and a border crossing into Bolivia, but luckily I was fine. As we left Salta, we drove through the foothills of the mountains and up onto the Altiplano, the vast desolate plains, with scrub, cacti and occasional clusters of adobe buildings in various stages of disintegration. The dwellings wer...