Author: Tom

Sometimes I like to push my limits a little and step outside my comfort zone. I don’t do any extreme sports—actually, I don’t do any sport at all, full stop. The only exercise I...

During my time in Bolivia, the country faced a fuel crisis. Several bus companies often operated on the same routes, but because they couldn’t guarantee enough fuel, they had to split departures among them....

It was time to move on through Bolivia, and Sucre was next. The bus journey wasn’t particularly long, and I arrived in Sucre in the early afternoon. I knew that this city would also...

Leaving the Salar de Uyuni, the enormous flat plains despite their altitude, I was now ready for even higher ground. The journey continued to Potosí, one of the highest cities in the world, at...

After a fantastic day out on Salar de Uyuni, with the white salt flats stretching for kilometres in every direction, we were in for a dramatic change of scenery after a rather chilly night....

I was originally going to write about a three-day group tour to Salar de Uyuni, the salt flats and the train cemetery, followed by the high-altitude landscapes all the way to the Chilean border....

After the wonderful days in Salta, it was time to get back on the bus. I wasn’t going particularly far, but because the border crossing involved walking, it seemed easiest to split the journey...