Day 29: Siloli Desert This morning a group of us agreed to meet at 6:30 to walk up the hillside with our host to view the tiny town, in its vast surroundings, from a height. I woke at 6:23. Still made it in time though! The first touch of light was coming on the day, but it was still icy cold. As we climbed and got out of breath, the elderly man leading us setting a pace that the group of twenty-something's could barely keep up with. We returned, hands like ic...

Day 28: Salar de Uyuni Today we ventured into the Salt Flats of Uyuni, a stunningly beautiful landscape of 360 degree panoramic views of pure white ground and sharp blue sky. We were going to be travelling through a veritable wilderness, the group of 16 split among four cars, for the next three days. Our drivers, all native Bolivians, collected us at 11:45 from the accommodation and loaded up the car with all our baggage. Excited, Ting, Laura, Shan and I introd...

Day 27: Uyuni Leaving Potosí for Uyuni this morning. All packed up and ready to leave with a few minutes to spare to test the new charger I bought the night before from the place that fixed my phone. And of course, it doesn't work. Goddamn it Potosí! With the bus late, I had just enough time to run back down to replace the 200Bob (€25) piece of crap. But, typical, the shop's closed. I go into a neighbouring shop, just to find out if it works or not. No, they...

Day 26: Potosí Today was an intensely annoying day. The less said about it the better really, but, I suppose, even the bad experiences are part of the story of travelling. It mainly centred around my phone, which for some unknown reason, wouldn't turn on. The jist of the day went like this: after breakfast Vale took a few of us to get money exchanged and then took me to find somewhere to fix my phone. Wherever we went, people were rude, impatient and generally...

Day 25: Potosí Leaving early from Sucre to head to Potosí that morning I had just enough time to pick up snacks in the market before departing - there'd be no time for lunch on arrival as we'd be heading straight for the mining tour. We arrived into Potosí about 2pm. This is a small mining town of 200,000 people and is short of air, not just because of the altitude(4,060m above sea level) but also because of the pollution. Buses and cars fill the town full ...