We arrived in Potosi after midnight so it was straight to bed that night and a rare opportunity to have a lie-in the following morning. The plan for the day in Potosi was to visit the working mines in Cerro Rico. These were formerly silver mines but pretty much all of the silver was taken by the Spaniards so the main outputs are now Zinc and Tin among other things. After breakfast we were picked up by the tour guide and boarded a bus that was to take us to the mi...

We had another early start on Friday morning as we were headed to Bolivia so had to do two border crossings....one to leave Chile followed by another drive through no mans land, and another at the Bolivian border and the outskirts of the National Park. We were at the Chilean border by 7am waiting for it to open at 8am and were through by 9am, which was a record according to Dave and this was despite some local bus drivers who didn't seem to understand the notion...