by Sarah Jervis | Dec 10, 2025 | Our Journey, South America
Setting off in convoy with Alex and Eric in their van and Manuel on his motorbike, we rolled West from Uyuni onto a long dirt road that would carry us across one of the most surreal landscapes in South America. The higher we drove, the more the world shifted — from...
by Sarah Jervis | Dec 8, 2025 | Our Journey, South America
Uyuni is a tough, wind-scoured town perched at 3,656 metres on Bolivia’s altiplano — part railway outpost, part gateway to the desert. Founded in 1889 as a strategic junction linking Andean mines with Chilean ports, it grew around the minerals that passed through and...
by Sarah Jervis | Dec 1, 2025 | Our Journey, South America
A Mountain of Silver November 19 & 20. The town of Potosí sits high, around 3,826m. A mining town that’s a jumble of steep streets and weathered colonial buildings sprawled in the shadow of Cerro Rico — the “Rich Mountain” that once funded the Spanish Empire...
by Sarah Jervis | Nov 30, 2025 | Our Journey, South America
15 – 19th November The road from Santa Cruz to Samaipata winds steadily up into the cool, green foothills of the Andes, trading the heat of the lowlands for misty curves, dense cloud forest, and sudden viewpoints that made us pull over just to breathe it all in....
by Sarah Jervis | Nov 27, 2025 | Our Journey, South America
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia’s largest and most modern city, sits low in the tropical plains of the eastern lowlands—a world apart from the chilly Andean altiplano most travellers picture when they think of Bolivia. Founded by the Spanish in 1561 and later...
by Sarah Jervis | Nov 25, 2025 | Our Journey, South America
5th November. Corumbá, I’m sure, is a lovely town—of the little we saw. Leaving the river around 4 p.m., we made our way to a laundromat and then to a truck stop for the night, marked on iOverlander as a good spot before crossing into Bolivia. Before leaving Brazil,...
