Category: Bolivia

Driving across the Salar de Uyuni
Bolivia, Recommendations, Travelling

Driving across the Salar de Uyuni

The Salar de Uyuni is a dried out prehistoric lake, leaving behind the world’s biggest salt flat. The salt is (usually) firm enough to drive through the spectacular landscape. Most people do a day trip with a guided tour with a local 4×4, leaving from and returning to, the city of Uyuni. Of course we were doing things slightly different. We were driving across the Salar de Uyuni and continuing to the Chilean border. Surrounded by nothingness In the wet […]

Bargaining for petrol in Bolivia
Bolivia, Tips and Tricks, Travelling

Bargaining for Petrol in Bolivia

Equipped with some new parts we left Cusco and headed for the Bolivian border. It was sad to leave Peru, which we had enjoyed more than any of the other countries so far. Our main “objective” in Bolivia was Salar de Uyuni, but to get there we needed petrol. Filling up for foreigners in Bolivia is hard though. We were bargaining for petrol every time in Bolivia, and that was the main “challenge”. Especially because the locals working at the […]