This simply deserved a blog of its own. I thought over a years travel we would run into some interesting experiences. Didn't take long as we were only 3 weeks in.
We flew out of Rio with 2 flights with the same company to Santa Cruz. Problem was our first flight didnt get to San Paulo in time for the 2nd. We also had the issue that we were going to loose our 3rd flight to Cochabamba with another company as a result. We didnt panic and got great help from an english speaking Bolivian to translate the staff's advice. To cut a long story short we spent a night and following day in a 4 star hotel in San Paulo with buffet, gym and pool to boot, all for free and paid sweet FA (50 aussie cents) to get our 3rd flight moved.
We spent the next 40 odd hours travelling on planes, buses, sleeping in airports and getting used to the high altitude, which neither Rhi, Taz or myself had to many issues with other than feeling terribly lazy/unfit/headachey for a couple days. We spent a night in Oruro which is not recommended. We checked out the markets and had a great traditional Bolivian dinner but realised we were the only tourists and found it hard to get to sleep with gunfire in the distance.
All in all an interesting, character building trip down to Uyuni, Bolivia for our 4WD salt flat tour.
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