"We are Toby & Alison. In October 2013 we packed up, left our careers and embarked on the trip-of-a-lifetime around the world. We have no idea how long we will travel for, or what we're going to do along the way. This blog is a record of our adventures and (hopefully minor) mishaps." 
San Pedro de Atacama – Chilean Desert Chilling
Back to civilisation: a famous Chilean town in the high Atacama desert… one of the driest places on Earth. Hot, cold and..did I mention that it is dry? Thankfully having been collected from the...
Monthly Archive: August 2014
Salar de Uyuni – Three days on another planet…made of salt!
Salar de Uyuni, the must-see landscape in Bolivia. Vast salt flats stretching on forever, mountainous terrain, volcanoes and seriously eye-popping scenery. The flats were a former seabed, now raised to 3,800m (13,000ft). It takes...
Potosi and a mountain that eats men!
High in the Bolivian Andes sits El Cerro Rico, a mountain that captures the imagination. Sitting like a scarred monolith above Potosi, it has dictated the town’s fortunes for over five centuries and extracted...
A Bolivian Pause…Heading Slowly East
It proved a bit of a task choosing a route through Bolivia. After La Paz, what next: the Bolivian Amazon, Salt Flats, the cities or elsewhere? And how to get there? With a little...