The wild west

Tuesday 22nd April

This place Tupiza, is sort of like the wild west. And in fact it is near the location where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid fought it out with the Bolivian army.

Anyway all I did today was wander around the town in the morning, before having lunch with a couple of the others on the trip. Then we were off on a tour in a jeep to see some of the local scenery. And as I said it was like something out of a wild west movie. Lots of red canyon walls, cactus and so on. And cowboys.

Well to be honest some of the cowboys were others or our group who had chosen to do the trip on horseback instead of jeep. Us in the jeep did however get to drive up to our new highpoint of the tour, 3800 metres. Well I say drive up, in fairness we did have to climb the last 50 metres. So there was some puffing, especially as we raced up. Probably the first time I've felt the altitude, although all the puffing may be because I am just unfit. On the trip we have a saying, it must be the altitude. It is a great way of blaming almost anything on the height we are at.

In the evening, after dinner, we watched a film at our hostel (with crisps, no popcorn could be located). The film, you guessed it, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.