From desert to city!

We awoke to feel the extreme cold hitting us, so we wrapped up in every layer we could. The sunrise was incredible as we brushed our teeth. For breakfast we had cold pancakes with dulce de leche, which went down well. We soon packed up the cars and headed off into the vast desert once again. 

The first sight we came across was Salvador Dalis desert, an almost perfect desert with a few scattered rocks and a mountain range behind. It was a nice view, however after hearing that Dali hadn't even visited South America we found this a bit of a disappointment and just another nice view, the weather was still so cold, so we quickly got back into the cars and headed to the green lake. 

However once we reached the green lake it was frozen, due to the time of year, so not green at all, but it was an incredible spot as we could see the borders of Argentina and Chile from our spot in  Bolivia. 

Here we said our good byes to some of our new friends as they headed off into Chile to continue their adventure. We headed back to Uyuni, with a lunch stop at a farm house, where we had tuna, rice and a range of fresh vegetables. 

Just before we reached our destination of uyuni we stopped in a little town where they were celebrating their anniversary with brightly coloured costumes and lively music. 

Once back in uyuni we collected our bags and were informed that we no longer had space on the luxury bus so would be given BOB70 (£7) instead as the new bus wouldn't provide us with food. We used some of this to get pizza from 'the best place in town' with Margret from our tour. 

Once we arrived at the bus stop we realised why this company was cheaper, the first leg of the journey was on a cold, uncomfortable bus. One of the windows was smashed, which left a breeze throughout the bus. However at around 12:30am we were moved onto a bus which was much more comfortable with bed like seats and was very warm! We arrived into la Paz very early, at around 6am. We were relieved to see our big rucksacks once again.

We walked to our hostel Arthys, which was luckily open, here we sorted out stuff and caught up with emails, before venturing around town to buy a leather handbag each and a gift for each of our brothers. 

We got meat empanadas for lunch, with an apple each. After this we headed back to the hostel to check into our room, here we showered and sorted out stuff, and relaxed a little as we were exhausted! 

We then headed back out to town with dinner on our minds, we choose a small restaurant which was very cosy over 3 floors, here Hannah had a quinoa burger and I a llama burger. The burgers were delicious with homemade fries. We sat in the restaurant for a few hours before heading back to the hostel for an early night, ready for our adventure the next day!