Blogs from Salar de Uyuni, Potosí Department, Bolivia, South America - page 16

Day 37-12th October (Salar De Uyuni tour day two) (Apologies for the delay R&F who paid for this excursion as a wedding prezzie for Liz and I, I already wrote this and the computer automatically shut down on me halfway through... thus losing the lot yesterday so I took a break to calm down and rewrite it!) So after a good day climbing trains, looking at cacti and balancing on water bottles we had an early and salty night, mostly because we had an early start! “Hola, Buenos Dias Chica’s y Chico, Vamos” was the first thing we heard while it was still dark, Snr Don Phillipe was getting our breakfast ready on our salty table which consisted of Juice, tea, bread and Jam. We were all a bit bleary eyed and staggered around aimlessly getting ... read more

Ola, We took a night bus from La Paz to Uyuni. The bus ride was a nightmare. It was 10 hours long, which wasn't much of a problem. The problem was that only the first three hours were on a paved road. The last seven hours were on what can only be described as a pockmarked, battle-scarred warzone. Neither Peter or Valerie got more than an hour or so of sleep on the bus. When we arrived in Uyuni, we met up with Tom and Kat, up Inca Trail fame, who would be joining us on the Salar de Uyuni tour, along with Dani and Puppy who had arrived with us from La Paz. Uyuni isn't the nicest of places. We would say it's a one horse town, but the people probably killed and ate the ... read more

We got a night bus from La Paz to Uyuni which took around 12 hours and wouldn’t have been so bad if the last 3 hours of the journey hadn’t been on unpaved road! It was ridiculously bumpy considering this bus does this journey for tourists daily and there was no chance of any sleep on that part of ‘road’ - It was literally like sitting on a power plate with the setting to max! Anyway we arrived in Uyuni early in the morning ready to start our 3 day trip of Salar de Uyuni. Salar de Uyuni is located in the Southwest region of Bolivia near the Andes and Chile, and is the world’s largest salt flat at 4,086 sq miles. The Salar was formed as a result of transformations between several prehistoric lakes. It ... read more

It has been almost a week since we last posted a blog, and let me tell you it has been a very eventful and even somewhat colourful! We left La Paz at 9pm on a delux overnight bus. I think the Bolivian idea of luxury is a fair bit different to the Australian first class bus! 12 hours, food that you wouldnt feed your dog and stupid bus drivers that stopped every 2 hours for a coffee.. for themselves that is, we werent allowed off the bus! We made it to Uyuni in the morning, stiff necks, frozen toes. After taking a quick look around the town we decided to go find a tour that started right away, the town god forgot! We paid for a 3 day tour of the Salar de Uyuni or ... read more

We woke early to make sure we would get through the border in good time, since picking up an American this was no guarantee. We had managed to pick up an Italian with us for the border crossing as he was heading into Bolivia to meet some friends. While it turned out to be a simple border crossing for the four of us from the hostel unfortunately for Simon getting a Bolivian visa can be a bit of a process. For any American that reads this here's a few things to note. Make sure you have the exact cash on you. But the important thing to note is the quality of the dollars in hands. Make sure they are the most perfect note you have ever handled. You see it turns out that they won't accept ... read more