These four days were among the best spent on this hoiday so far. We saw diverse landscapes and wildlife, sufferred from the extremes of temperature and altitude and generally had a really good time in spite of the "hardships". We started off from Tupiza taking in the wild west like scenery around Tupiza, continued on through a massive national park and finally hit the Salt Flats. We were on the Antiplano, the high plateau between the eastern and western ridges of the Andes mountains. We drove in an only slightly battered Toyota landcruiser and had a driver/guide and a cook, travelling with a buddy land cruiser whcih was a real pain because it kept breaking down. Day 1 was mostly travelling through high mountain ranges with more deep red rock formations carved by wind and water
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