Dean and Gillian's World Tour: Tupiza........a one horse town.

After La Paz we needed to head south toward the Argentine border. Outside of La Paz there are no paved roads, the whole country is dirt track !!!!. However there was a train to a small town called Tupiza, which is about 90k from the border. Quite a long trip (12 hours) arriving at 4am. We decided to do this and go for first class as it was so cheap. Definately worth it as we got reclining seats, pillows, blankets, a couple of good movies and even an evening meal in the dining car. The scenery was also pretty good as we headed out into the desert.

Meat feast before the train.

All Aboard !

View from the train.

Tupiza is a sleepy little border town 90km from the border with Argentina. It's real wild west country down here, with amazing Canyons and giant Cacti. They ran some horse riding trips here, so we thought we'd give it a go. Neither of us have much experience on horses but the animals seemed pretty tame and we were able to steer our mounts around ok (except when they decided they wanted to eat some grass !!!!).

Cow girl !!!

Not sure the horse is too happy!

Canyon of the Incas.

Interesting rock formations - Valle de los Machos

I also decided it was time for a hair cut. I managed to find the only Jehovah Witness barber in South America, and once on the chair I was trapped and he could start the conversion process !!!!!

Barber with an evil glint in his eye !!!

Tupiza was also the area where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid commited the Aramayo Train robbery. They were tracked down by the Bolivian Army to a remote mining town called St Vincente, where they were apparently shot (I think Sundance got away). There was a small museum and cementary, so we decided to visit.