Today was absolutely amazing!!! Such an eye opener to see a real working mine and to have even a small idea of the conditions that they work in! our tour operator (Pedro Negro - Black Peter) was an absolute crack up and kept cracking jokes and swearing all the time. We left the hostel at 8:30 to begin the tour, and stopped along the way to change clothes into the protective jacket, pants and gumboots. VERY stylish! We also got bandanas to help with the dust and ...

Our second lot of not showering for numerous days has come and gone! Hopefully our second (and second last) day of getting up at 4:30 has also come and gone! The salt flats in Uyuni were amazing!!! Let me start by saying that karma came back to get me for complaining about the slow walkers by putting Kirbs and I on a tour with them. Let me follow that by saying that they were actually really nice women, and that we had a great time with them!! So after our LONG ...