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...