Definetively not to Bolivia for reasons explained herein. Firslty, I’ve been itching to write this post about Bolivia in the light of our last developments. I was very delighted this morning to leave the damn country. Two days ago, we got stranded in Salar de Uyuni, the great salt desert near a shitty town named Uyiuni. I hate Uyuni, but later about that. The salt desert is a desert made of salt tiles, all abourt 1/2 m squared (they will be very important in my story) and its all bliding white and one can go crazy without sunglasses. But its beautiful, and the desert was in very old times a great sea, and it still has “islands’ made of ancient corals on which huge cacti grow now.

So we were trying to reach Colcha K ( true name) thru the desert by car when we got stuck in salty mud, as we were 7-8 km’s close to the edge of the desert. And just our luck it had been raining for the past three days in the desert- last time it rained was 1 year ago. Initially, Serban tried to dig channels for the tires while the rest of us went deeper into the desert to get the salt tiles and make the car adhere to something else than mud. No luck, the tires dug deeper until they reached black and stinky mud and we needed to come up with another strategy to get the car going…as we feared rain in the evening and we did not have close to enough water to last us for 1 night. Go and I walked 7 km’s, to a lil’ village where we asked for someone with e big truck to come and get us out. That someone was a gold toothed monkey arse who wanted $ 100 for getting us our, after gandiously declaing that “money was not an issue”. We declined and we barganaied down to 70 american, from which 50 was the cost of a car to get us closer to our car, but not close enough so it would not sink in…we got dug out at 11pm after countless attempts by all of us ( the car was by then resting on its belly, wheels deep down in crap).

I wish I had more time to write on how much I dislike Bolivians- its reads bad, but I think in our time there we only met only one person who did not try to steal from us and be a dick. Its Serban’s turn now:) p.s. it all ended well and we are now in Chile and it seems very nice.

D.