Tupiza

We arrived in Tupiza a few days ago and then got sick. If anyone has seen the movie with Robert Redford and Paul Newman ¨Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,¨ Tupiza is near to where the movie ends. If you haven´t seen it, I highly recommend it. The outlaws met their end after robbing a nearby bank and then were killed in the surrounding area. I went on a hike to a canyon the second day here and it was gorgeous. Yesterday we went on a 5hr horse ride through the desert, but my horse had a name, Sanchez. Today I am really sore because I am not used to riding horses and am not the most adept cowboy anyway. It was incredibly beautiful, cacti everywhere, red colored formations of stone, and passageways eroded through the rock. We are leaving on a train later this afternoon to Uyuni, our last stop in Bolivia, where we plan to see the salt flats and lagoons. Then its off to Chile. I have been reading Che Guevara´s diary while he was in Boliva and where he was eventually killed; it is an interesting read. The biggest news of the day is that I took a shower this morning, yes, and only 15 days into the trip. I feel much better.