We have a sleep in, a hot shower, pack our gear and head to our tour office for our jeep at 10.30am. We wait and wait, and watch others from the same agency get into their jeeps as they arrive. We keep being told ours will be along shortly. It eventuates that we are not joining two Dutch people in our jeep, but are instead picking up 4 other people from another tour office. Our jeep turns up, we jump in and head off to another tour office, trying to figure out if...

Hi all, What follows below, has been penned by Ryan's own hand and is his (as yet, incomplete) account of his tour down into the silver mines of Potosi. It is his first full blog post, and likely to be his only one! So lets hope its a good 'un. Ryan: I'm up at 6.30am, an early rise. It's a very chilly morning, which certainly wakes you up. Breakfast is fresh orange juice, coffee, pineapple, bananas and more rock hard bread with jam and butter (if you threw it, ...

In the morning we taxi up to the Sucre bus station and end up on a Trans Emporador bus to Potosi. The drive is pretty uninspiring and we arrive into Potosi's bus station, which is one of the newest stations yet. It's big, modern, but round and bloody confusing to find your way out of! Eventually we find the salida and out on the street manage to flag down one of the few and far between taxis passing by. At Koala Den our room is being cleaned so we use the intern...

...The bus starts stirring and then the lights come on. We look at our watches and its only 6am. We can't be in Sucre already, we didn't think we'd be here until 9 or 10am as Lonely Planet says its around 14 hours to Sucre. But we're here. Our formula one driver has done it in 11.5 hours. We grab a taxi to the hostel, and ring the bell three times over but there is no answer. As its only 6.45am we are at a loss as to what to do. We look to our Lonely Planet for i...

The next morning, after allowing ourselves a sleep in from our late arrival into Uyuni, we pack our things and head out, hoping to find a tour operator and another hostel for tonight, all before our checkout time of 10.30am. We head across the street to hunt down the Estrella del Sur offices, which are marked in Lonely Planet as being roughly opposite our hostel, Hospedaje El Salvador. Try as we might we could not find the Estrella offices. We ask in places and ...