Melting Mountains

Salar de Uyuni - The Salt Desert

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August 30th 2008
Back to La Paz, more of the same, shopping and drinking. We lost some of our original biking group at this point but stuck with Tristan and Diana, another couple. Traveling as a boyfriend-girlfriend pair, you make friends mostly with other couples. I don't know why this is, certainly it wasn't intentional on our part. Maybe single people don't want to hang around with couples. When I was traveling ... read more

South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Salar de Uyuni

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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