When we got back from Uyuni and jumped straight on a bus for Tupiza - the 'wild west' of Bolivia. Woo hoo - reasonably short bus ride I thought. What a jinx. The 6 hour bus ride quickly turned into a 14 hour expedition when our driver, who apparently likes to drive cross country, decided it would be better to go off road (why I don't know when the road is already made of dirt...), and straight into a massive mud puddle. Yes, the journey was smoother, for the good minute before we hit the mud patch, but it meant that we spent the next 3 and 1/2 hours with everyone off the bus tyring to dig it out and jack it up, covering the mud with salt bush in the freezing cold night. At about 2:30am, everyone gave up, went back inside and fell asleep. At 6:30am our tow arrived.
(No Tor Tor, there were no donkey's to tow us out. And in Boliva, there are no trees to wrench ourselves out with either)
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