We departed Uyuni shortly before sunrise and started our journey towards Tupiza on a really narrow and bumpy but otherwise flat and straight dirt road. Our bus company, Transportes Tupiza, seemed to have its act half-together as the bus was relatively clean and in pretty good shape considering the bone-jarring daily trip it makes from Uyuni to Tupiza. We made it about 30 minutes south of Uyuni when we spotted a bus in the ditch up the road ahead. As we approached it became quite obvious that the stranded coach was also part of the Transportes Tupiza family; so we pulled over to help get them out of the ditch.
We arrived into Tupiza later in the afternoon and were pleasantly surprised at how nice of a town it was. The surrounding scenery makes you want to throw your leg over a horse and ride off into the sunset. Tupiza is said to be where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid had their last stand some 100 fateful years ago against the Bolivian military.