One funny thing that happened to all of us at altitude that I forgot to mention was that the ping pong ball thing from our roll-on deodorants popped out and bounced across the floor. You'd think we were a team of incompetent table tennis players. It must have been the pressure or something but it was very funny. Anyhooo, what's next? Potosi - the world's highest city at 4060m and also a Unesco World Heritage site. It's a bit of a controversial city as it was f...

We arrived in Uyuni fairly late after our adventurous journey past the miners' strike, across rivers etc to find the hotel to be the best place we've stayed since Ushuaia. It's owned by an American guy and his Bolivian wife and they've got a great business going on there. At the back of the hotel there's a pizza place which serves fantastic gourmet pizzas. Despite still being at altitude (3675m), Sarah and I decided it was time to get back acclimatised to the red...

We had a sparrow's fart 5am departure from the metropolis - it was pitch dark for about 5 hours and absolutely freezing - to the point that Michelle and I were on the truck snuggling under my sleeping bag! It was one of those awful experiences where you can't get warm therefore you can't keep warm. Anyway, eventually we got to the Argentinean border which was the usual hut full of gun-wielding immigration officers who told us all tom shut up. The funny thing was ...

We set off on Friday for our 2 day drive to Bolivia. Stopped for lunch at a little mountain town called Purmamarca where they had a really colourful market. It was also the first time we had seen people who looked more native (from Andean mountain tribes) than the typical Argentineans. Had lunch and then pushed on, stopping at some mini salt flats (ironically called Saltinas Grandes) where we practised a few silly poses, in preparation for the big salt flats in B...

On Tuesday we set off on the drive to Salta via some pretty impressive scenery - quite Grand Canyon-like. We stopped at an amphitheatre and another canyon/gorge thing called the Devil's Throat which were created by wind and water erosion. It's hard to capture the scale on photos. There were a couple of little stalls there selling delicious sheep's cheese tortillas and llama salami which we bought - yum! Enroute we had a rather embarrassing situation with the b...