As nice as it was to get this photo, the guides don´t really know how to keep the area untouched and pristine, as they don´t keep to the same roads, feed the foxes and viscachas, and clap loudly to make the flamingos fly away.
Salar de Uyuni July 22nd 2010 Salar de Uyuni (and the lands surrounding it) is astounding and surreal. The feeling of being on another planet -- be it Mars or one imagination-sprung -- seems to be universal. Though the rides in the Landrovers are crowded and extremely long, there is so much to look at out the windows that the time passes fairly quickly. Still, both the flats and the surrounding mountains are profoundly inho ... read more
South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Salar de Uyuni 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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When I first started traveling, I kept journals. They're mainly emotional trash, bemoaning my desperation to talk to another person after a week of being in a strange land and not speaking the language. It's better to have an audience.
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