Blogs from Potosí Department, Bolivia, South America - page 148

Days 26 & 27 We headed off in 4x4 s to Solar de Uyuni - 12000 square kms of pure salt! It was amazing. Pure white salt against bright blue skies for as far as you could see. It used to be a lagoon but the water dried up so it's just salt that's left. It looked like ice. We stopped at a salt hotel where everything is made of salt - including the furniture and then stopped at a random island for lunch. We had an explore of the island (which is called Fish Island) which had plenty of cactus and lots of rocks. We headed to our 'hotel'which was in the middle of nowhere. Stuart played football with a couple of the guys and a couple of local lads then we chilled out. ... read more

Plaene sind dafuer da, sie zu aendern. Die Tour von San Pedro zum Salar de Uyuni in Bolivien wurde mir von einigen Leuten so empfohlen, dass ich sie unbedingt machen musste. Und ich hab es nicht bereut. Tag 1 Wir haben uns um 8 Uhr morgens bei Pamela Tours in San Pedro getroffen. Es stellte sich schnell heraus, dass ich eine sehr nette Gruppe erwischt habe. Lawrence und Amy aus England, Frans aus Holland, Katia aus der Schweiz und ich. Alle mehr oder weniger im gleichen Alter. Zunaechst bot uns der Veranstalter an, Geld zu wechseln. Das nette Angebot nahmen natuerlich alle gerne an un tauschten Bolivianos zum Kurs von 10 zu 1000. Leider sollten wir bereits beim ersten Stop feststellen, dass das der Obernepp war, denn der eigentliche Kurs ist ungefaehr 10 zu 500. Naja, ... read more

Now I diffently couldn´t leave Bolivia with running around in the Land of Butch Cassidy and good old Sundance. So I arrived in Tupiza with the plan to follow there last few fateful days. Tupiza is the site of the bank they intended to rob. Now it is just a sleepy little town with tourists going to the salar, or here for what I am.... read more

We caught the 10am bus on 20th November from Uyuni to Potosi which as the norm with Bolivian buses was over subscribed. We had reserved seats which were unfortunately on the second row from the front of the bus. I had someone sat on the arm rest of my seat for three hours of the journey and a womans big ass wedged in the aisle near to my leg and whenever someone needed to pass she just sat on my knee without prior warning. At least we had seats unlike many who were crammed into the aisle, swaying from side to side and up and down as the bus negotiated the twist,turns and bumps in the road. I am not a good bus passanger at the best of times but on a bus with an erratic ... read more

Rick provids the intro, whilst Becky has written the longer more boring stuff! Hola from Rick: Again thanks for all your comments on the previous blog, and yes the sights and sounds of south america are nothing on the joys of spotting a burberry cap and a silky shell suit flash past in a souped up escort xri with the sweet sound of loud bassy R&B. Well everything we have done recently has been at the highest in the world. Highest and largest navicable lakein the world (surely all lakes are navicable?), Lake Titicaca (fnar fnar), highest capital city in the world (La Paz), played the highest golf course in the world and maybe most expensive relative to the Bolivian GDP, where I was particulary rubbish (maybe due to a rather large drinking event the night ... read more