MOUNTAINS, VALLEYS & SALT FLATS
On the way back to Uyuni, we visited a train cemetery, where a collection of old steam trains had been simply driven into the desert and left to rust. It is rumoured that one of the many abandoned locomotives hauled the last train robbed by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but no one knows which one it is!
From Uyuni, it's about 120 miles to the border with Chile at Ollague, a small and forlorn railway town at 12,000ft where, by necessity, we stayed in basic accommodation overnight. The entire day's riding had been on dirt, through incredibly rugged landscape. At one point we were forced to take a diversion off the track on to llama tracks and deep, soft, patchy sand. This made for an interesting few miles, two-up on a 1200GS, and several lock-to-lock slides
