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South America, part II: Bolivia

Richard Rosss
2006-04-03 12:30:09

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So we sat and dug foir a few hrs but weren´t getting anywhere. The water table was rising and making it even muddier there. We had to be picked up from another truck and taken to town (2hs away) We got picked up by the SAS chaps whom were suitably impressed with our catologue of crashes. They passed rounds heaps of booze and everybody was pissed soon after. We drove into towm and it was like one of these party buses that cruise round London . I felt like more beer after that so we all got even more drunk...so its been exciting. We are waiting here in Uyuni, for a jcb to dig out the truck. so we could be here for a couple of days! Its really stuck and there is no way we can dig it out without help. The water table is rising as well....exciting! The salt plains are ace, but we are all sick of them!

April 12th

Woke up feeling a bit dodgy, so after I used the internet, I went back to bed. Then I started to vomit and have bouts of cold sweats. I was feeling yuch. My diarehea came on soon after. I think it was a combination of altitude sickness/local food and alcohal that pushed me over the edge. I started to write out my will, I was in a bad way. Monica and Darren got me some drugs (Noxom) to kill most things in my gut - sure enough after 20mins I felt better. So I lay there until about 7ish when I passed out. I woke at 1am and the woke again at 7am. So I never saw much of this place (Uyuni) but its quite nice. Its very old fashioned looking and there tons of markets selling all manner of different fruits. The people here are very indian looking and are tiny. The westerners stick out like sore thumbs as we are so tall! I also noticed that there seems to be tons of Israelis here...escaping the troubles back at home!

April 13th

Up nice and early and ate some breakfast. A group of healthy guys has gone with some airbags and hydrailic gear to try to ...