The last few days in Bolivia were spent mostly on buses and a train. We spent one day in Santa Cruz. It is a large city with relatively little tourism, but unlike most of the country it isn't in the mountains and is close to Brazil and Argentina contributing to its status as Bolivias economic capital. We saw almost no other extranjeros during hours of exploring the city. From Santa Cruz we took the overnight train to the Brazilian border. Sooo much better than ri...

We got to the town of Uyuni in the morning after a relatively comfortable night bus where we got to watch the third hobbit movie ! But since it was in Spanish on really low volume we missed a lot of dialogue so we look forward to seeing in it English ;). We got lucky and got a good deal on a tour to the salt flat, Salar de Uyuni and national park reserve. The next three days were spent driving around in a full 4x4 jeep, stopping to take in sights , explore, etc...

La Paz was a busy city- loud, smoggy, and crowded- but the mountains surrounding it were pretty. We rode the city's gondola (it was very interesting to see gondolas used for public transit, but in such a hilly city it seemed tow work really well) up a neighboring mountain to a massive open air market.