Back to civilisation after a three day jeep tour from San Pedro de Atacama in the Atacama dessert in Chilli, over the border into Bolivia through the Salt flats and fantastic scenery to Uyni, South West of Bolivia. We spent two nights in San Pedro, aclimatising again, eating lovely food and staying in our own hut in the garden of the hostel, very expensive but we did think we would have three days of terrible food and no comfort on the tour. How wrong we were,...

After all that excitement of the Pantanal, we headed back out to a proper road again, got a bus to Corumba near the Brazil/Bolivia border, and spoiled ourselves with a three star hotel...hot showers and all! After a good nights sleep, on a proper bed, we were supposed to be getting the train to Santa Cruz in Bolivia, but the guys we booked with never showed up. So after some running around we decided to make a dash for the border, El and I had trou...