A beautiful road and another blockade

The road from Uyuni to Potosi is a lovely 200 km twisty tarmac road with more amazing scenery, lots of animals and virtually no traffic! Here are some pics:

Fields of Quinoa.

A stop for lunch with hundreds of animals in the plain below...

After a few nights in Sucre we headed north but came across another blockade at Aiquile - our 3rd in 4 days of riding! The blockade had been in place for 2 days already! Some drivers set up hammocks under their lorries - its crazy. We followed two locals on a ped and were allowed through the roadblock into the town after weaving through rocks and moving some tyres. This pic was on the way to the roadblock, it was too dodgy to take a photo where all the protesters were.

To get out of town we had to get through another roadblock guarded by about 200 people. Initially we were advised not to try but then we were told about a railway line we could use to bypass it. We rode on the tracks for a short distance but were concerned we couldn't turn the bike around quickly if we were seen and things turned nasty.

Another local said we might be able to get through so we decided to go to the roadblock and see. There were a few whistles when we arrived but we talked to a couple of friendly old boys. One went away to speak to someone and then returned and said we could pass. The only way was to ride through an area of rocks used by peds, bicycles and people on foot. Dee walked in front and we managed to get the bike through and we were free again! This took us on the road to Misque and beyond towards Cochabamba via a combination of tarmac, sand, ripio and cobbles.