itchyfeet

Ok. It seems my preconceptions were justified and I was not doing Bolivia a disservice at all. Having sat in the station for 3 hours after arriving 4 hours late, our train finally leaves Uyuni at 6 in the morning. 7 1/2 hours late. It gets worse. We crawl along to the next stop Atocha where after sitting and sweating for about an hour we are told the train cannot continue to the border and we have to get off. Its about 11am and we should´ve been at the border 4 hours ago. Now we´re stuck in a no horse town 6 hours from the border and 3 hours from the nearest one horse town, along with countless others in the same boat. Their speed and Spanish enables most of them to organise onward transport before us, leaving us with two options: either hop on a cattle truck (no thanks) or negotiate with a local 4x4 driver. We successfully manage the latter and after a very bumpy 3 hours we arrive in Tupiza, weary and 500 boli´s ($60) worse off. The bus would´ve cost about 100. Now we´re in the real Bolivia.