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Train Cemetery  
   

Train Cemetery

In addition to being the starting point for jeep tours across the Salar and a military base, if the national anthem plays a sign in a hotel advises you to remove your hat and stand still, Uyuni also has a train cemetery full of the carcasses of old rusting steam trains.
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
South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Uyuni

Bolivian Flag 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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