Salar de Uyuni

20mins out of Uyuni, hundreds of miles of hard, flat salt plains. The piles are part of the salt ´harvesting´process which ends up on tables and in kitchens in S.A.

Salar de Uyuni / Southwestern Circuit

April 24th 2006
After we had exhausted Pososi´s eating, drinking and sightseeing possibilities we headed 7hours southish to the town of Uyuni, dropping off point for jeep tours around the Southwest. The journey itself was fairly uneventful by Bolivian standards, with only a couple of stops for ´problemas´(which turned out to be a driveshaft problem) but nevertheless we arrived in Uyuni relatively on time and ... read more

South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department

Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and counter-coups. Comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1... ... read more

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