We find a hostel in Jujuy but an incident forces us (100 pesos to wash a bag of clothes when it should have been only 30 pesos..) to change: we find the hostel Jujuy, run by Tito a very nice character. We meet some French girls studying medicine on an internship exchange; they financially help the H2 Project by buying the official shirt.

The car, left in the hands of Jesus, is ready a few days later. I go for a quick ride to try it but despite the good will of the mechanician, it fails to start in front of the hostel. I have to call again for a tow… Snif! When it is eventually ready the following day, I decide to carry on the trip towards the North quickly: Elise's visa is expiring soon.

Some 50 km further, at Volcan, the place where Gonzalo and Elise had to call for a tow just a few days before, the car celebrates the event... by stopping again!

15 minutes later, when it starts again, I think wiser to go back to Jujuy after calling Jesus on the phone… We take it directly to the technician who cannot find anything abnormal. We go back on the road and spend the night in Pumamarca. The following day we visit the mountain with 7 colours and then follow the Huemamarca valley. We reach La Quiaquia and go across the border to Villazon with no difficulties. The night is cold and the toilets windy but the excitement of being in a new country cheers us up.

After a visit with Vincent to the border shops to find a new camera for me, we follow the road towards Uyuni. The road… Which road? There are no roads in Bolivia! Every toll or police check is a new opportunity to show our Bolivian patriotism by paying what I now call "the national contribution"…

The track to Atocha is long, perilous and vertiginous, full of stones and finish killing the springs already well used. When we eventually arrive in Atocha late by night due to 1) lack of indications (even the GPS get lost in Bolivia...) 2) forced stops from the car itself… Once settled in the hostel, we go on a culinary expedition; trying the salchipapas… Ahhh the salchipapas, ask Elise what she thinks of them… The next day we go back on the road towards Uyuni and its gigantic salty desert.