Ok, before I forget a last bit about Sucre. Jill as you may know likes fashion and clothes design. So she was keen to go to the textile museum in Sucre. Me? Well why not? Off we set and soon found it. We went to the ticket office (£1) to be confronted by the ticket lady sat on the floor breast feeding. She clearly wasn't expecting company. No big deal for us but she quickly sorted herself and sold us two tickets. We were then passed over to our guide. A funny ...

So here we are in Sucre - 'The white city'. Nothing to do with sugar it just has lots of white buildings and is named after the General who promoted its independence. . All very Spanish like so many South American cities. Ok let's get the factoids out of the way. Sucre is technically the capital of Bolivia. It has a population of just over 200,000. The Supreme Court for the land sits here. However La Paz with a population of 1.5 million is the 'real' capital. ...

The bus ride to Potosi was uneventful. Except that we had to sit in different seats. The booking offices here don't use computers. They have a sheet of A4 for each bus. If they lose it then they can easily sell the same seats twice as in this case. We were pretty much the only foreigners on the bus. We had the usual periodic stops so local people could sell food and drink through the windows. Potosi has a brand new terminus. It is on two floors with ticket off...

We booked our jeep trip into the Atacama desert and on to the Bolivian salt plains. As usual we went with a company recommended in Lonely Planet. A bit more expensive (I mean 1 or 2 pounds) but a company with a good reputation. Unfortunately tales of overcrowded vehicles, bad drivers' even drunk drivers are many. Cordillera are a family business who do one tour and that's it. San Pedro is an oasis town. In recent years it has boomed with the tourists using it a...