I arranged my salt flats tour in La Paz joining with 3 others I'd met in my hostel, we were due to start at 10am on the 10th of Feb so booked a bus that would get us in to Uyuni at 6am - 4 hours to spare - no problems! The road between La Paz and Uyuni is notoriously bad, apparently the worst road journey in South America, and obviously as we were travelling in the rainy season it would be even worse but I was optimistic - I shouldn't have been - it was a fairly ...

I arrived into La Paz after the hellishly long journey and was greeted by the most fantastic thunder storm - the roads on the way into La Paz were lined with a couple of inches of snow - it was all very dramatic! The taxi driver didn't know where the hostel was and clearly was unable to read a map - eventually I reached my hostel (it really took a long time between my driver's poor navigation skills and the fact that traffic in La Paz doesn't actually move - like...