Uyuni it's self is a bit of a desperate little town, very dusty and dirty! The poverty in Bolivia is so marked compared to Peru, Chile and Argentina!

The currency is good, making everything so cheap here.

The Salt Flat tour was very good :) we had a great guide, the evenings were as cold as I imagined but with the hired sleeping bag the night was actually really hot... Probably due to the thermals and amount of layers I had on too!!

The first day we were on the salt flat, messing around taking some funky pictures, using the perspective to be chased my a dinosaur and eaten on a fork!! We also learnt how they collect and process the salt so it can be sold for eating. Unfortunately, Bolivia is land locked so it is not feasible for them to export any of their minerals as the taxes from the other countries are too high!!

We then went onto one of the 12 islands in the middle of the salt flat!! All of this area 12000km used to be under the ocean until an earthquake years ago that brought 'Bolivia' to the surface. Therefore the island was made of coral and had loads of massive cacti that had been growing for years after the seeds had blown from neighbouring surrounds! Very fascinating to see :) as it seemed completely random in the middle of this vast white area!! It was really hard to get your head around the fact it was salt, as it looked and sounded like you were walking on snow. Apparently it's 127cm thick of salt floating on water! There's a hotel in the middle made of salt with a swimming pool... Freezing!!

The hostel we stayed in the first night, was very good standards apparently, you could pay to have a dribble of hot water shower and each room had its own real toilet! The bricks and beds were made of salt too!

The second day we drove a fair amount, out of the sea bed, salt and coral surroundings to a semi active volcano and the surrounding were made up of the dried lava and ash from when it last erupted!

The volcano was in the background still smoking away :-) which was pretty surreal. We found some 'LlamaLlamaLlamas' to play with and then had lunch out the back of the Jeeps at the flamingo lagoon :-)

After lunch we drove up to the highest point I've been so far, 5000m above sea level, where we saw some natural Guessers. 200 degrees of hot (is it Sulphur?) bubbling away from the volcano! We were told to listen out for any signs of earthquake, as that was the first of the volcano erupting... And time to run!!!

The second night we stayed in the more basic hostel... It was absolutely fine, except the bathroom consisted of a whole in the floor and a really weird toilet that I just couldn't work out how you were supposed to sit/use, so we all used the nature bathroom instead.

When we woke the third day the whole area was white with snow and as we were driving to the Bolivia/Chile border we were pretty much in a white out!! Then the news came that the Chileans had closed the border due to the weather conditions on their side, so we had to travel another 5 hours back up to cross the border at another area then another 5 hours in a bus to arrive at San Pedro, Chile.