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Published: April 29th 2007
On the road to nowhere!
Out trusty steed for the next 3 days. Our Jeep trip in Bolivia, which we know as 4 x 4, was one of the highlights so far. We were spoilt with 2 vehicles complete with a driver come guide for 4 people, that meant we had a vehicle all to ourselves. Laura and Kengo (Ken) would be our jeep mates for the next 3 days. Laura is from Holland, although her English and Spanish are very good. Laura thanks for all the Spanish lessons. Kengo, from Japan, on the other hand spoke very little English. His English was as good as our Spanish, need we say more. We ended up having a great time as we spoke Afrikaans to Laura and she spoke Dutch back. We are still amazed at the similarity between the languages, although Afrikaans is a derivative of Dutch. We equally had a good time with Ken and it is amazing how much can be achieved without speaking that much. Well at least Ken taught us to say hello, goodbye and count to 5 in Japanese, which is really useful in South America!!!
The scenery was so spectacular and vast. We saw so many beautiful things and we have listed them below. Apologies for
Laguna Verede
One of the many spectacular green lagoons. the regimented list.
First day:
Laguna Blanco (the white Lagoon)
Laguna Verede (the green lagoon) 4450m above sea level
Rock formations of the ¨Salvidor Dali´s desert (like the painting)
Thermal spring of Polkis 4400m above sea level - we swam here the waters were 35deg C
Sol de Manana - the geyser of the morning sun 4850m above sea level
Laguna Colorada - 4200m above sea level.
Second day:
Siloli desert - famous for the tree like rock formation, the Arbol de Pierdra
Laguna Honde
Laguna Hedionda meaning stinky!!! 4100m above sea level
Laguna Canyapo
Volcano Ollague
Yaretta - a plant that grows 1cm a year and only grows above 4000m above sea level.
Train tracks - from Uyuni (Bolivia) to Calama (Chile)- 10hr journey
The Chiguana Salt pan
San Juan villiage - Robbies beer stop
Third & final day:
Uyuni salt flat, the largest in the world sitting at 3653m above sea level and spans an amazing 12,000 sq km. Part of a prehistoric salt lake, Lago Minchin which covered most of the southwest of Bolivia
Incahuazi island - an Inca island in the middle of the salt pan with a huge amount of cacti´
The
Jeep mates, wet behind the ears
Thermal spring of Polkis 4400m above sea level and a wopping 35deg. Salt Hotel - a hotel made completely out of salt .
Colchani villiage - here we saw the whole salt process
Locomotive cementry in Uyuni
As you can see by the list we saw it all including plenty of pink flamingo´s, again.
Now that we have arrived in La Paz , the highest Capital City in the world standing at 3660m above sea level, toilet paper and water are no longer a sacrid comodity.
We are now on the brink of the next leg of our journey, a 3 week overland tour through Peru.
Check you later!
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Heidi & Wayne
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Hey guys, I'm impressed! you've obviously been eating all your spinach. You can fly and move mountains... Looking forward to the next highlight. All the best.