UYUNI, BOLIVIA – THE WORLDS LARGEST SALT PAN
OUT OF ARGENTINA – INTO BOLIVIA 4-9 May 2026. The plan had been simple enough: drive to Uyuni then on to La Paz where we would leave the camper at a campground outside the city, and spend a couple of nights in a hotel exploring the chaos and energy of the capital. But Bolivia had […]
BOLIVIA’S WESTERN LAGUNAS ROUTE
DAY 1 23 November. 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 […]
UYUNI AND THE SALAR
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 the workers who hauled them. Its broad streets, concrete buildings, and […]
POTOSI, BOLIVIA and Kevin Irvine’s memorial
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 and, at an unimaginable human cost and set the […]
SAMIPATA & SUCRE, BOLIVIA
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. SAMIPATA Samaipata is a relaxed, bohemian little […]
SANTA CRUZ, BOLIVIA
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 relocated to its current spot after repeated Indigenous resistance, Santa Cruz […]