Sunset on Incahuasi

Incahuasi is one of the Islands on the Salar de Uyuni. Cactii sprout all over the rocks in the middle of the salt plain. We cycled 40km to get there using a compass and very good directions we found on the internet(www.irisentorreoprice.nl). When we found it we had just enough time to buy a beer and race to the top to watch the sunset. There is a restaurant but no hostal on the island. Cyclists however can stay for free on a really cool room with a great view out over the salar.

Salta, Argentina to Uyuni, Bolivia

July 8th 2006
"His cheeks were red, roughned by the wind, which for ten long hours had massaged his cheeks. Drops of water trickled from his hair. He had emerged from the night like a sewer-worker coming up out of his manhole, with his heavy boots, his leather jacket, and his forehead-plastered hair, blinking like an owl." (Southern Mail by Antone de Saint-Exupery) Felt a bit like this yesterday when Alain an ... 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

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