I arrived in Cochabamba on a Sunday - there isn't really a lot to do - there is a museum but I wasn't massively keen on that. There's a big white Jesus on a hill but I've seen a few of those and the weather was miserable so with a day to kill I decided I'd go to a cinema for the first time on the trip. I ended up watching 3 films (for £2 each) so not bad. In between I did treat myself to a mega dinner at a Brazilian restaurant where I ate my own weight in meat -...

I arrived into Potosi early in the morning - not feeling very refreshed, I think I'd overshot the optimum number of beers beforegetting on a night bus and I was still sore from the fall so didn't really sleep well! Potosi is a rural mining town - with a surprisingly fancy bus terminal!! I had come to Potosi with the hopes of doing a mine tour - I'd heard very mixed reports but wanted to check it out myself! However arriving, feeling like crap I really didn't fa...

Tupiza is a small town in the south of Bolivia, usually visited by people on their way to/from Argentina. It is surrounded by the most fantastic red mountains and canyons - it really reminds you of the Wild West and cowboy films! I arrived into Tupiza at 2am and went in search of a hostel, luckily I found one pretty easily! Tupiza is the home of a tour they call a triathlon which includes a visit to some canyons in a jeep, some horse riding and cycling and I was ...

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...

The crossing from Bolivia to Chile is fairly dramatic, you move from a dirt road to a fantastic surfaced road, in the space of an hour I moved from freezing cold weather where it was actually snowing to sweating like a pig in a desert and the changes in the price of food/accommodation almost floored me! San Pedro de Atacama is an oasis in the driest desert in the world! There are many cool things to do around it which is why I decided to visit - my first day was ...