Was I'll all day :( watched many films and played many iPhone games. Felt sorry for myself.

We woke at 4.30 after a troubled nights sleep due to Sam's loud snoring and awful hostel matrices! It was a challenging packing with only the light of a wind up torch! We had a quick breakfast of shop bought pancakes before heading off to the Sol de Mañana Geysers. We arrived right on cue for sunrise. The smell of sulphur was very strong and the sound of bubbling mud and shooting steam was loud! We were given strict instructions not to touch the steam as seriou...

We got stamped out of Bolivia and eventually took a 45min bus down to San Pedro in Chile! Our 3rd country. It was a hut in the middle of nowhere and there wasn't a line to cross so to speak, so I didn't get any good photos. We made our descent to San Pedro and I noticed a few things: being on a tarmacked road for the first time in 3 days was luxury!! The terrain was very different. More vegetation and les desert. We were finally leaving altitude!! Stamping into...

We arrived at our hostel in the middle of nowhere about 8.30pm. We were given rooms as we arrived so Garth and I ended up sharing with Grant. We all paid 10 Bolivianos for a hot shower and shared a mean of sausage and onions on chips. I was ready to go to bed but a group of people wanted to play kings cup again and had stocked up on alcohol in Uyuni ready. Garth was unusually up for some fun so I joined him. It was me, Garth, Hernan, Ollie, Sas, Michelle an...

A lazy start was much needed. We packed and started our 3 day tour of southern Bolivia. Our group was joined by a nice Swedish guy called Sid and we had 3 off the road vehicles. In our vehicle was Grant, Sas, Ollie and Michelle which was very lucky as we soon figured out that our cars would be where we would spend the majority of the next 3 days! We took a 45 min drive out of the town down a dusty road to see a salt 'factory' and do the usual tourist souvenir sh...