Wow again. Many people had said that visiting the Salt Flats around Uyuni was a must do when traveling in South America, but I had no idea what I was actually in store for. With a Canadian couple, a Swiss girl and a guy from London, we headed out from Tupiza in a beat up old Toyota Land Cruiser.
Much like my earlier visit to Antarctica, I was constantly in a state of amazement over the four days here in Southern Bolivia. The landscape, which was mostly over 12,000 feet in altitude, was ever changing and one site after another provided scenes more amazing then the last. Each day seemed to build on itself like a thrilling mystery or a piano concerto. From hair raising mountain roads
, to intriguing ruins, to red and green and blue lakes, to steaming, bubbling geysers it was hard to believe that the climax or crescendo could actually live up to the previous few days. Alas, the final day´s sunrise on the eerily white salt flats did not disappoint. While driving across the salt flats (think hard rock made of pure white salt), you could not help feel like you were crossing a frozen lake up in Minnesota. It would not have surprised me in the least to see a snowmobile come flying past our jeep leaving a wake of snow. After the sunrise, we visited a cactus island and took the cliche salt flat photos that are a requisite for a visit here. Other highlights were staying in a salt hotel, wandering through ruins at sunrise and seeing rock formations that seemed to be straight out of a Dali painting. All in all, this four day journey will definitely go down as one of the coolest things I have ever done.
, to intriguing ruins, to red and green and blue lakes, to steaming, bubbling geysers it was hard to believe that the climax or crescendo could actually live up to the previous few days. Alas, the final day´s sunrise on the eerily white salt flats did not disappoint. While driving across the salt flats (think hard rock made of pure white salt), you could not help feel like you were crossing a frozen lake up in Minnesota. It would not have surprised me in the least to see a snowmobile come flying past our jeep leaving a wake of snow. After the sunrise, we visited a cactus island and took the cliche salt flat photos that are a requisite for a visit here. Other highlights were staying in a salt hotel, wandering through ruins at sunrise and seeing rock formations that seemed to be straight out of a Dali painting. All in all, this four day journey will definitely go down as one of the coolest things I have ever done.
Pretty cool, dude. Those photos are great.
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