After four days of travel we´ve finally come accross a reliable internet connection, in Uyuni of all places - a tiny stop-over town on the Southern Altiplano. We´re taking a short break here before heading out on a three day land rover tour across the Salar de Uyuni (the world´s highest salt flat lake).
The day after we returned to La Paz from Copacabana we flew to Sucre, a relaxed town with a University feel and lots of beautiful Colonial architecture. We spent the night in a converted colonial manion in the main square and took a taxi to Potosi the next day (2 hour taxi ride, 35 Bolivianos per person, or $5US)
We spent a day in Potosi visiting the mercados. Nearby Cerro Rico mountain once produced enough silver and tin to finance the colonial Spanish empire. Now that the mine has been just about stripped, the town is a strange isolated outpost with streets filled with what was once beautiful architecture.
We took a public night bus to Uyuni (loud and interesting) and are now waiting to go on a tour of the Salt Flats. We´ve heard quite a bit about interesting landscapes and wildlife from other travellers and are looking forward to experiencing the trip first hand.
Now that we´re a bit further off the beaten track we´re finding the language barrier is a bit more of an obstacle but the Bolivians we come across are always patient in assisting us with stumbling through whatever it is we want to say. Perhaps we may become passably competant in Spanish after all...
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