Salt anyone????

Michael Jackson and Clint Eastwood

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July 5th 2009
After leaving the coldness of Potosi, we entered the cold and bleak town of Uyuni, the jump off point for visiting the salt flats. Now we have seen some grim places on this trip and well this has to be the winner (apart from Tegucigalpa in Honduras which was worse if not different). Uyuni was a cross between a recently bombed communist bloc town and a dusty and much scarier version of a mad max ... read more

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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