James, Marie, and I teamed up with Damian and Nevina, a couple from England, and another American, Jordan, to round out our group of 6 needed to fill a Toyota Landcruiser and take our tour of the Salar. And it was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! The first day lead us to a very poor village that subsists soley by mining salt. And at $1 per 110 lb. bag, it's a lot of work for almost nothing. Next we visited the Salt Hotel, a real hotel in the middle of nowhere constucted entir...

Well after 2 flat tires on the bus to get here, I finally made it to Uyuni, home to the world's largest salt plain, Salar de Uyuni. Uyuni is a small desert town that sits at 12,000 feet(3600m) in altitude and although pleasant by day, becomes absolutely frigid the split second after the sun sets. I am wearing almost everything from my backpack to keep warm...which is nice cause the pack is far lighter...plus a wool hat and some gloves I recently purchased for th...

After a 7 hour overnight bus to the border of Argentina and Bolivia, I was shocked! I was shocked at how freakin cold it is!!! Perhaps coming to Bolivia to hibernate from winter in Argentina and Chile was not the brightest idea. I planned to cross the border right away but I found myself freezing cold in the dark at the bus station with two Irish guys and no one around to ask for information. So we decided to split a triple hotel room together, get some proper s...

After departing Arequipa with the two Costa Rican girls, we arrived in Puno Peru. We discovered there were no more buses for the day going to Bolivia and we were stuck. So we spent the night and headed off early the next morning on a tourist services bus to Copacabana on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca, one of the highest major lakes in the world at 3800 meters or 12,540 feet. While going through Peruvian immigration, I did everyone a great favor by delaying t...