Onto Uyuni

24 July WP 593 S 21’ 31.037 W 068’ 00.371 altitudes 4673 mts. overnight temp -28c
Elayne cooks breakfast the eggs and tomatoes tasting so good after our freezing snacks. The sun had warmed our surroundings the wind easing to a breeze. Look Elayne calls out while I’m trying to find where the water went from our engine. Two Toyota’s a tour group in convoy heading towards us.
I can see their dust trails rising from the arid Plateau.
I find no problems with Victor it must be the Altitude causing the water to expand, the only conclusion I can draw hoping it is not the engines head gasket.
We are pretty grubby Elayne remarks have you looked at yourself in the mirror….No I reply…..Well you best smarten yourself up it looks as if those Toyota’s are heading our way.
A quick look in the side mirrors and we sure do look a bit rough, what with me just extracting myself from Victor’s internals. It’s always the way Breakfast is just being dished up and we have 12 tourist arriving. The Toyota’s arrive and the 13 tourist disembark camera’s clicking away as the Bolivian tour guide speaks to us in English…..Why did you camp so high in this place he asks? We lost the track last night. He nods and proceeds to tell us…. Very dangerous to travel here at night to dangerous to cold you freeze. My wonderful eggs and tomatoes are getting cold, Elayne shaking her head your timing Chris always amazes my.
The tourist all fascinated by Victor and our small camp. We pose for the Belgium’s, the Americans, and one guy from Uzbekistan, even the Bolivian tour guy’s want a photograph next to Victor.
At least we know what track to take as the Bolivian tour guides show us a few markers on our map….Many travellers cars break here one Bolivian tour guide explains very rough tracks many problems.
We say our goodbyes, the international tour group stuffs themselves back into those Toyota’s and rapidly they disappear over the horizon the dust the only feature left from their visit.
I finish my ice cold eggs and tomatoes, Elayne having a chuckle they were hot Chris really they were hot….