We decided to head out of Uyuni the next morning, we needed to get back to a warmer climate before our fingers fell off. That night we headed out to the only generater lit restaurant in town to get us some pizza. An hour of waiting and they finialy gave us menus, another hour and we got drinks, yet another hour and two of the people we were with got some pizza... half an hour on, apparently that was all that we ordered and we wern't getting anymore. Alot of fuss later and two more pizzas arrive, by this point we were so fed up we stayed just long enough to eat it before heading back to the hostel. The next morning we went to the terminal to get our bus to Sucre, a nice one turns up going to the same place but we are told we are not allowed to get on it and have to wait for another one. A clanky old thing arrives and we have to throw our bags up onto the roof before getting on. It's half 9 in the morning and there is a drunk local infront of us... great! 10 mins into our 14 hour journey and he is puking. We drive for about 5 minutes longer and run out of petrol, the bus now rolls down a dodgy mountain road and back to the petrol station before we continue on the journey. About half an hour later pukey is at it again this time all over my shoes and our rucksack, gross!! The little kid who doesn't get a seat is lying on the puke covered floor eating peanuts a la puke.... nice. His mother then proceeds to suffocate him with a plastic bag until he nearly collapses, she finds this hilarious! A little kid sitting a few seats away then craps himself stinking out the whole bus... not the best journey we have ever had.
We get to Potosi, the highest city in the world, pretty cool but we get about a 5minute view of it before we are hearded onto the next bus where we don't get seats... brilliant! Half an hour in and a few people get off so we can sit down, we met some cool english people on the bus called Christian and Richard. We got accomodation together and spent the next few days exploring the city with them, it was a pretty expensive place to stay though so we left after 2 days and arrived in La Paz this morning after a freezing 12 hour bus ride. We did get an all you can eat pancake breakfast at our hostel when we arrived though!
Sunday, 26 July 2009
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