After a cold 8 hour night-bus ride from Tarija, we ended up in a town called Tupiza (a small city south of the Salar de Uyuni) where we purchased our 4-day/3-night Salar tour (with Tupiza Tours).
We also spent a day in Tupiza and opted to do a 5 hour hike just outside the town which brought us to some very impressive rock formations (Puerta Del Diablo, Valle De Los Machos, El Cañon Del Inca), and made us feel like we were walking through an old Western movie. The most challenging part of the hike was not the walking… it was finding the trail and finding our way back to the town. Since clearly marked street names are still a fairly unknown luxury to the smaller towns of Bolivia, it took us about 45 minutes to find the right street in Tupiza where we could actually exit the town and find the start the "trail". And on the way back, we got a bit lost amongst all of the tire and horse tracks and ended up trespassing on a military base… oops… the Bolivian army did not seem to enjoy our company so much, but were nice enough to gently escort us off the base and point us back to town :).
