9th May- 27th May 2009 An early(ish) start and we were off towards the Chilean-Bolivian border where we all had our bags searched for apples and other fruits, luckily they didn't want to take our chocolate or Luce's needles...thank goodness. Then, it was a quick ascent to high altitude at one of the Bolivian border crossings where our 4x4 jeep driver, Jonny, loaded our bags onto the jeep and the four of us (Luce, Rach, Daz-our new friend from our Chile trip, and Daphne-a new found addition to our travelling band) hopped in ready for our 3 day trek...already it was quite chilly. The next 3 days were awesome and almost indescribable. We drove through, over and around; barren sandy landscape, active volcanoes, borax lakes, flamenco habitats, huge chunks of lava and rock, geyers, hot springs,
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