Hi Guys just a quick postcard... I will go back and update it later! Can't believe we have a week left in South America and are flying to Rio today!! So Our adventures in Boliva are as below!!... We came down though the south of Peru and entered entered Boliva from the South for a bit on a 4 day 4WD tour.. The Scenery as absolutely fantastic and you will surely get bored of all the scenery photos!!! Bolivia 4x4 Tour: From San Pedro De Atacama in Chile, we booked on a 4 days four by four tour into the southern part of Bolivia, we left with 10 other tourists into the unknown. Our group was a mixture of Brits, Kiwis, and Canadian, which was a great bunchand probably made the trip better, especally when the temperature dropped into those minus temps of -20 at night. When we left the border for Chile we didn't get to the Bolivian side for another hour, figure that one out! When we did finally get into Bolivia we stopped for breakfast, which was the same for the 4 days, bread, butter, jam (choice of orange or red), a fairy cake with a toffee gew inside it and a cup of tea. After that it was of to the lagoons, first the white and then the green, both with huge mountains and volcanoes behind them. We visited some hot springs and geysers, like at the Tatio Geyser in Chile, Elaine was brave enough go into the water,which ment changing clothes in the freezing cold and making a run for it straight in and lay in the hot water, looking at mountains and bleak countryside at 4200 meters above sea level. That afternoon we visited the Dali desert, named after the painter as the desert looks like one of his paintings. That night we stayed in the freezing cold place or basic accommodation as the tour company call it, one girl was wearing 9 layers (top half of her body) just to sit down and eat dinner. . We were told it was about minus 15-20 degrees outside, well it was at 4300m and in the desert. We took some emergency whisky (as recommended to keep warm.. did the job nicely!!) The next day we visited the red lagoon, and chased a flamango around ti trying to take a photo, but that beasts was moving far to fast to get a decent photo. Most of the day was spend on a the bus driving across the bleakest countryside you have ever seen, we only got out a few times to see the Rock Valley, a Ghost Town and Siloli Desert and the Tree Stone there. That night we have a luxary hotel/hostel and more pasta & potato for dinner. We literally did not remove our thermals or have showers for 4 days as it was too cold to take any laters off, I~m suprised you couldnt smell us from England!!! The third day of the tour was on the Salar de Uyuni or the world largest and highest salt plain in the world. It is like looking at a lake of snow and that just goes on for miles and miles in every direction. It was 1200 sq km of late that had evaporated and left salt. At the largest Island, the Fish Island which is covered in Cactus (upto 123 years old and 12 meters plus tall), On the way to Uyuni we stopped at the Salt Hotel, which is completely made out of salt, except for the bed sheets and curtains. Once in Uyuni, one of the girls on the tour convinced us to visit the train cemetery just outside the city,(this is the ONLY thing to do here!! v wierd old place!) so we did. I can't understand why it is in the Lonely Planet, except use an Internet Cafe or possibly drink cheap beer and spirits. Got some good abstract pictures though which were cool! The last day we woke late to the sounds of the drivers moving the bus at 5:05am,thinking he was about to piss of without us we threw our belongings into therucksacs and ran outside onto the bus, and then spend the rest of the morning and early afternoon driving back to the border and back to San Pedro De Atacama, for some sunshine and to thaw out!! We left San Pedro De Atacama , in a luxary bus for a 24hr drive to Santiago!! Ekk! Smelley toilet all the way.. nice!! and having a fight with our neighbours who kept closing the airvent and we kept opening it!! Santiago was cool, it rainned, only there for a couple of days, met up witha couple of Andys mates he met and went out Salsa ing until 7 in the morning!!!! Had a fab time!! Next on to Rio!!! wooohoooooo.....