Blogs from Salar de Uyuni, Potosí Department, Bolivia, South America - page 11

Tina Writes Day three was kicked off in a similar style to previous days, bump starting the Land Cruiser at 6am, and off we went. More weird rock formations, lagoons and flamingos filled the morning before the tail-gate buffet on a salty plain. We were back in the bad seats. The back of the Land Cruiser had no leg room so became rather uncomfortable after a while, even for me with my wee Meccy legs. Poor Rob. It also meant each time we stopped we had to clamber out over the seats in front which had been pulled down. It was ok though. While driving through one of the slat flats we noticed a train in the distance coming toward us. Then we could make out the track which was literally in the middle of nowhere, ... read more

Le lendemain, nous nous réveillons à 7h00 pour aller prendre le petit-déjeuner et écouter l’actualité de la nuit précédente puis nous partons un peu après 8h00, contents de ne pas partager la voiture avec les haleines fraîchement alcoolisées, pour la plus longue journée de l’excursion. Nous allons en effet avaler beaucoup de kilomètres aujourd’hui, on va pouvoir tester l’endurance d’Oscar, notre chauffeur. Nous quittons alors définitivement le Salar d’Uyuni, encore plein de splendides images devant les yeux. Tout en apercevant ici et là quelques vigognes (animal local, à mi-chemin entre la biche et le lama), nous nous dirigeons vers le sud. Nous allons traverser un autre Salar, bien plus petit, le Salar de Chiguana. Avec ce Salar, nous entrons dans la province la plus australe de la Bolivie : le Sud-Lipez. Cette province compte 5'000 habitants ... read more

"The salt flats was amazing! We took so many pictures that were crazy. We took pictures of me in a can, me eating my dad and me pointing at my small daddy. My dad kissed my barbi. It was shivering cold. I put salt down my dad's pants. I slept in a salt hotel. I got a salt crytal that I took back to our house. And it was fun. The old trains were verycool. I kept saying ' all aboard to Africa' "- Sofia ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ After 1 night in La Paz, we took a private ride to Orouro to catch a train. The drive took almost 4 hours and I had fun with Daddy and Jen in the car and did a lot of math. We stopped for lunch "in the middle of nowhwere" and ... read more

The overnight bus to Uyuni was supposed to arrive at 7....but somehow it managed to arrive at 5:30, which meant that I had to walk around for ahwile searching for a hostel:( However, me and some others managed to find one that let us put our things down and rest, before booking our tour of the salt flats. I had originally planned to do a four day tour, but due to the cold weather and snow, some parts of the usual tour were unreachable. Therefore, I shortened it to 1 day. The Salar was formed as a result of transformations between several prehistoric lakes. It is covered by a few meters of salt. Our tour took us to the train cemetary, salt hotel and incahuasi island.....and as the pictures will attest to it was beautiful, especially ... read more

Day One Crossing the Salar de Uyuni was one of the things I was most looking forward to in South America and it is one of the renowned trips of the backpacking world. Much like Machu Picchu and Foz do Iguaçu, if you are South America and anywhere near to them, it is compulsory to go. We arrived early on the morning of 28th June, at the office of La Torre Tours and were quickly introduced and left in the care of our guide and driver for the trip, Franco, and his wife, Ancelma, who was our chef. Lots of tour groups leave every day from Tupiza and as such, we there was a long line of 4x4’s being prepared and we noticed that ours was several years older than any of the vehicles present. It ... read more