Uyuni, Sucre and safari 1 - 12 April 2023
Uyuni and Sucre 1 to 12 April Saturday 1 April. Wake in our palacial salt room in downtown Uyuni. I go for self service breakfast on 3rd floor - along with tea bags, instant coffee etc there are coca leaves in case of need, but I stick to some fairly evil filter coffee. John not feeling 100% (I blame the coca leaves he's been sucking on for the last few days - [It wasn't it was the meal the night before or tap water]); I go out to explore and check out where the buses run from - been told it's a street rather than a normal bus station. Uyuni is drab and dusty - as John says, a one horse town where the horse has died. But there's a fiesta of some kind with a band and lots of school kids marching along, all dressed in a school uniforms. We check out of our room and are provided, foc, with a tiny cell with a single bed and poor WiFi signal where we can snooze and read through the day. I go out in the afternoon for a coffee and...