Day 3- Anna and I got up to see sunrise neat the salt flat which was lovely and we had some fun taking photos of our tall shadows in the early morning sun! We left after breakfast and immediately started our drive across the salt flat, which was as you imagine, a massive expanse of white, which meets the blue sky at the horizon. It is the largest salt flat in the world at 12,000 sq km and sits at 3653m. We were at Isla Incahuasi/Isla del Pescado by 9am. This i...

Day 2- Up early as departure time of 7.30. Luckily this meant we could see the sunrise although it was really cold still, pretty much just changed my pyjama bottoms for my jeans- no showers anyway and in those temperatures you wouldn't shower even if you could! After breakfast we drove to "Laguna Colorada" which was near our accommodation. Apparently we should have gone the day before but as we arrived late we waited til the morning and it was a beautiful time...

The so-called "Salt Flats" tour is often a highlight of people's trips to Bolivia and to South America. I'd have to agree- it was 3 days of stunning scenery; the kind that makes you say 'WOW' on a regular basis. The Salar de Uyuni (Salt Flat) is just one of the amazing things you see on the trip as the tour is of South-West Bolivia and therefore you see a really beautiful part of the country, including lakes, flamingos, rock formations, mountains, desert like lan...

As the Sunday 24th was the fiesta of San Juan when I arrived on the Saturday evening there was lots of activity in the square, mostly involving children setting off fireworks, a little worrying as no safety precautions are taken and they were just going off all over the place. After I had found somewhere to stay I went to have dinner, glad to have escaped the cold at night at altitude. Coroico is only at 1700m and thought not that warm in the evening, a fleece w...

Really behind on my blog! This dates back to 23rd June.... I spent Friday 24th in La Paz , mostly just wondering around. I saw a couple of different protests going on- one by Aerosur staff, a Bolivian airline who recently went bust and another which I wasn't sure about, but it seemed it was still going on 4 days later when I was back in La Paz on Monday- quick google search and it seems they were protests by the Police for better wages to equal that of soldiers ...