Sucre - Day 42 - 10/11/2012 (Saturday) It certainly was an interesting bus ride. It reminded me of Asia. The bus driver going faster than is physically possible and over taking on blind bends. Only had 2 near misses though!! We arrived into Sucre in the early evening dumped our stuff in the hotel and then went to a travel agent. There is lots to do here so we need to book it through someone else. We all went down and the guy spoke in English and gave us ...

Potosi - Day 40 - 08/11/2012 (Thursday) The bus ride was one of the weirdest so far. Hardly a car on the road and every time the driver saw a llama (in the road or even miles off the road) he honked the horn. He then stopped in the middle of no where and his wife and 2 kids showed up and came the rest of the way with us. We arrived into Potosi (the worlds highest city -and once richest) city. It's about 4070m above sea level. This made even walking off the bus ...

Atacama Desert - Day 37 - 05/11/2012 (Monday)This was part of the trip I'd really been looking forward to. 3 days in a 4x4 crossing one of South America's largest desert. We got picked up from where we were staying in a van and we drove to the outskirts of the town where the Chile border control is based. It's almost an hour from the Bolivian border but for some reason the office is here. We queued for almost an hour as there was a huge queue and only seemed to b...

San Pedro de Atacama - Day 35 - 03/11/2012 (Saturday) The bus got in at about 9am. As this place was tiny it was a quick walk to the place we were staying. Our rooms weren't ready so we all went out for breakfast. The town really was tiny. 1 Main Street with a few others coming off it. The streets were not surfaced so it was also very dusty. The rest of the morning we just had a wander around the place and chilled out in the hotel. We went for a late lunch but ...

La Serena - Day 32 - 31/10/2012 (Wednesday) After almost 7 hours on the bus we arrived into La Serena in the early evening. As the next 2 days were a Chilean national holiday everything was really bus. It took us almost 30 minutes to flag down the 5 taxis we needed. Sarah went in a taxi before me and when I got to the hotel she hadn't arrived. Slinky worried we all waited but they finally arrived. We threw our bags into the room and headed out to get some food ...