Cochabamba to Uyuni

Sucre in the sun

We left La Paz quickly, too noisy and busy after the peace of Isla del Sol. We arrived into Cochabamba, an odd town. Firstly we honestly thought our taxi driver was trying to kidnap us, he kept slowing right down and flashing his lights at other cars. Turned out he was lost. Then our hostel didn't have our booking, the staff were rude and unhelpful. When we went out to explore we discovered that half of the city closed from midday until 3pm and the other half closed from 4pm indefinitely. We were always at the wrong place at the wrong time.

So we left the pretty sounding Cochabamba in a hurry and 

went on to Sucre. An extremely lovely UNESCO protected town with cobbled streets and a warm climate. We stayed in a beautiful pension, Casa Al Tronco, so beautiful in fact that we extended our time in Sucre just to stay on at the pension. We wanted to see dinosaur footprints but no one seemed to be able to tell us how to get to them. So we just relaxed.

From Sucre we continued on down to Potosi. We didn't do our research very well, apart from going down the mines there is very little to do in this dusty, dull brown coloured mining town. So we did very little and kept on moving south through amazing scenery, from sand dune like mountains with lush oasis hidden beneath that hundreds of llamas grazed in, to huge red rock cliffs rising out of the horizon. 

Beautiful Neo Gothic bridge over a highly polluted river in the middle of nowhere

Potosi Mint

The road to Uyuni