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South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Uyuni February 13th 2005

Sorry folks, its been a while since i´ve written, but i am a lazy man on vacation. Lets begin with about 2 weeks ago when I embarked on a 4 day, 870 km tour of the southwest portion of Bolivia. i was alone for this leg of the trip - tom was nursing his death road wounds in la paz and chrissy was out galavanting with bolivia pcvs. this is known to us travellers here on the gringo circuit in south america as, ¨the salar trip,¨ because the highlight is supposed to be the ¨salar de uyuni,¨ a salt flat that is unbelievably white in the dry season and full of water in teh wet. right now is the wet season, so the pics you will see whenever i get around to adding them will be ... read more
more salar
LandCruiser on the Salar
Isla de los Pescadores

South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Uyuni December 8th 2004

So we arrived in Uyuni at four in the morning after the bus journey from hell. It took two hours longer than it was meant to and the driver hopped off the bus every half our to perform the very technical act of banging the front wheels with a piece of metal! However we got there and were on a Salar de Uyuni tour by 10:30 am that same morning. In fact we had our choice of tours and had tour operators following us around the central plaza (competition is fierce). We decided on a group called Reli tours as they were upfront about costs, gave us a really good explanation of the tour and showed us the Land Cruiser (which was in good shape - kind of an important piece of kit). We set off ... read more
The Train Graveyard
Solitary Vicuña
Piles of Salt ready to be collected




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