Our trip up to Bolivia was long but interesting. We started off taking an overnight bus from Salta up to La Quiaca (both of which are in Argentina). We arrived at about 7am, at which point we carried our luggage across into Bolivia and had our passports stamped. We were then in La Quiaca’s sister town of Villazon, on the Bolivian side of the border.
We were prepared for it being a little quiet, so we headed to what seemed to be the town’s only hotel and asked for a room for the day: our train northwards to Uyuni only left at 3:30pm. We were lucky: we took the last available family room and camped out there for much of the day, letting the kids catch up on sleep ahead of the next 8-hour journey to Uyuni.
We didn’t want to risk missing the train, so got to the station (which was devilishly hard to find… thankfully some fellow travellers from Germany had found it during a morning stroll, so we tagged along with them) a couple of hours ahead of the departure time.
The train…