Tupiza

So a couple of days later than expected, I finally entered Tupiza (three hours from the border to Argentina) the other route, avoiding the rivers on the Uyuni road.

Unfortunately I did not have much time left to spend but otherwise I would be keen on staying a night here. Tupiza is a small country-side town, which looks like it was taken from a place in the old American Wild West. Just a bit more spectacular with the high red mountains in the background, surrounded by canyons, coloured rocks and cactuses. A really beauty.

A lot of people know the classic movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). It made Paul Newman and Robert Redford famous. Fewer people know the script was based on a real story, and even less people know that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid spent their last days in Bolivia, more specifically in Tupiza.