jeeps!

We spoke to our hostel lady as she also arranged tours but after heading over to Tupiza Tours, we decided to go with them. They seemed the most professional outfit and had by far and away the best verbal reputation which is the most important advise you can ever get when travelling. Wow, we were booked onto a tour which started in 2 days time! We weren’t sure if we were going to get 5 or 6 people in the jeep and although we thought it may be a little bit cramped with 6, it meant it would help considerably with the cost. We were very excited by the prospect of visiting another other worldly landscape. Wow we were becoming masters of strange environments!

After arranging our tour, we headed down the street to check out the rest of the town. The town is very small but the landscape around it is big. The town is surrounded by stunning

red rock hills and is famously on the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid trail, for all you old western lovers. In fact you can arrange a 4 day horse riding trip which follows their trail when it passed closest to this very town. I remember the film but that’s about all and I was surprised to find that these two actually got killed in Bolivia. I always just thought it was a made up cowboy story, but there you go, in fact its all true and our paths were actually going to cross the famous pairs footprints, so to speak!

We had a jaunt around town, which didn’t actually take too long. It’s a very impoverished little place where there is a reasonable tourist trade, but you can tell that the people there have a hard life. They seem happy enough as most Bolivians do, but you get that same old feeling of being a very rich westerner in a very poor country. There is so much talk of poverty in