La Magia De Uyuni

... but so cold it feel as though its made of ice - If only we had some sleeping bags! We share a room with Mike and Lucy and set about to drink another 5 bottels of wine and teach the Americans some great English drinking games.....they thought it would be easy to count to 21, how wrong they could be! We gazed at the amazing night sky....I´ve never seen such a clear sky with so many stars, and shooting stars ...

... I could have had an extra half hour in bed :o(<br><br>The minibus took us across the Bolivian border and to some kind of refugio type thing a bit beyond, where we met a tour coming the other way from Uyuni to San Pedro and exchanged vehicles. The group heading into Chile gave us their spare coca leaves, which aren´t allowed in Chile and the Toyota Landcruiser seemed reasonably old but robust and five people was a very good number. The luggage all went on the roof so we had plenty of ...

... of salt built in a similar fashion to a yurt but using dead cactus as the central roof support. Definitely the most unique hotels I´ve spent a night in and much more luxurious than I´d imagined. I was able to get few good shots of the(almost) full moon rising I retired to a very deep sleep. <br>Early we arose and jumped back into the Land Rover after the standard bread and jam breakfast. Now this was the day that really caught me by surprise. I was expecting some lagoons and some ...

... matter up quickly. No more money.<br><br>The next hurdle was slightly bigger - the jeep. Where was it? We'd also been told there were two other girls on our tour, but they hadn't materialize. After two hours with very little action, I feared we'd been sold a dud and we'd have to find another tour the following day.<br><br> Just in the nick of time (before I really lost my rag ...

The trip to Uyuni was a rather long and tedious one - first a bus trip to Oruro where we had lunch and then what must the slowest express train on earth - even dodgy looking trucks were going faster than us on the roads! Plus for the first couple of hours we had the joy of watching and listening to Bolivia pop music. At first all was good but there´s only so much of ´'mens bands' you can take - think of boy bands but add ...

... is no water pump in Argentina if that is the problem! They sent me and the mechanic to their Kawasaki shop to have a thorough investigation. It pretty much confirmed my suspicion, it was a faulty sensor for the temperature warning.<br>Put it all back together again and ready to roll! Once again the people were amazing it must have been nearly 2 hours work, no charge. I did slip the mechanic a tip though.<br>They also gave me a map to get out of town ...

We asked for an adventure and an adventure is exactly what were getting...... On early Sunday morning i woke up to Candice calling me to tell me she couldn't´t find her passport. She ended up finding it very shortly after,,,,nothing but a lil scare to get this trip going. I flew from SD to Dfw where i meet up with Candice. After a long wait at the airport we where ready for our 10hr flight to Argentina! We ended up in ...

Jan 13, wake up at 2 and I`m not overly ****** anymore. I watch some football (soccer) on tv and inadvertently take a nap on the couch till 6:45 and then I have a spanish lesson at 7 which I sucked at. They show the creaziest sports on tv here. The big game on tv is the women`s field hockey championships, yes there is such a thing and what is even more bizarre is the fact that people actually watch it (including me, but I just wanted to see ...

... fono de una mujer que el día anterior había estado en las termas y que tenía un hotel en Mercedes. Ella dijo que me explicaría cómo llegar hasta Colonia Carlos Pellegrini y que tenía una habitación disponible para esa noche en su hotel. Me voy muy contenta con todas mis anotaciones, tomo el micro que me llevaría a Mercedes y me dedico a observar el camino. Llego a la ciudad pasadas las dos de la tarde y me voy directo a un barcito para poder comer y ...

... of Avenida Humberto Primo. And that is where we connected with Rico and Josie, both of whom are from Holland. The internet really does bring people together. You just have to wait until people are done typing until you can talk to them. During the week we had a few conversations with them in passing, and then on Sunday we ended up spending the afternoon talking about our respective trips and what we had done in the city. They started out in Suriname ...