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A picture-story for the lazy reader.

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Here are some of the photos from the tour. A few were taken by Flo, the French guy. If you think any photo is cool – it was more than likely taken by him.

Remember when you were young, and you didn’t know if a cactus would hurt…….

Jenny

The ‘hotel’ we stayed in our first night.

hotel

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Moonwalking

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Ok so not exactly the Moon itself, but the photos look like we could have been there! I’ve wanted to go to the south-west of Bolivia ever since seeing this web-site. In fact, their blog is so well written you might as well check out their site to see what I’m on about. You can catch up with mine some other time….. yao

Before heading of to Uyuni, the land of the salt, we first went to Tupiza. This is supposed to be the nearest thing to the wild west in South America and the place where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid were killed (thank you Jenny for that nugget of information). On the way there we took part in a bit of a protest, a trip highlight for Jenny (she likes that kind of thing). The bus driver had let on four Argentinians who stopped him on the road. The bus was as full as could be, as always, so they made a home for themselves on the floor. A few hours into the trip we were stopped by the police and the four were ejected. Sitting on the floor is the usual in most places around here but highly illegal apparently when in the middle of nowhere. After watching the four being given out to by the coppers, our fellow passengers revolted at the driver’s decision to leave them behind. We all got up, and demanded they stop and let them back in. We were shouting and banging on the door to the driver’s cabin but he was unfazed. Eventually the crowd gave in and Jenny returned to her seat, deflated.

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