As I had to return to Uyuni to get back to Bolivia and my first visit to the salt flats had been so disappointing I decided to give it another go. So after a night's sleep in Uyuni I jumped back into a 4x4 and headed off to the salt flats - obviously I was gutted to be without my camera but I had my phone and was hopeful for better weather this time. Luckily, the weather was much better and the salt flats were stunning as I'd hoped they would be. Looking out over...

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 ...