The bus journey from Potosi to Uyuni was seven hours of discomfort but was otherise uneventful (listen to us seasoned pros). We chatted to an Irish couple Arnie and Serena, and Brendan a Canadian guy. Since our arrival was at 2a.m we all crashed at the nearest cheap hostel. The next day we all searched the town and numerous tour companies for a trip out to the nearby salt desert. We parted with the Irish two as they decided to get a two day tour and we were inter...

Alter a hellish bus ride on rapidly degrading roads we arrived safe and sound in Potosí. Overlooking the mining town is Cerro Rico. This is a huge mountain which has been used to mine silver from around the invasión of the Spanish to this day and gave Potosí its reason for being. Potosí was at one point the richest city in the World with more inhabitants than London and Paris put together. During these times the first Bolivian mint was opened there and this p...

Although La Paz is the larger city Sucre is the oficial capital of Bolivia. Sucre is a tiny little town that was given UNISCO World heritage status due to its intense concentration of old colonial architecture. We decided to visit on our way to Uyuni to break up the travels and whilst looking around to decide what to do we were intrested to find out that about half an hour outside town there is a cement works that holds over 6000 individual fossilised dinosaurfoo...

If I am ever to achieve my goal of climbing Everest then I need to start somewhere and the 6088m Peak of Huyana Potosi seemed like the best place to start. We booked our trip with Huayna Potosi Climbing School and managed to wangle an extra day at the refugio to acclimatise before starting. After being kitted out in all our gear (apart from boots for me as I have massive feet apparently!) we met with our guide Felix who spoke very little english but was a jolly ...