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Uyuni Slideshow
Uyuni
Travel Blogs from Uyuni, Bolivia
Made it to Uyuni in one piece!
This is a top pick! ... of the body, but like an finally tuned machine, spun round and launched two water balloons and claimed two clean head shots!! England 2 Bolivia 1!! It was all a bit messy after that, but we eventually got back to the hostel to dry off - we were allowed ...
Uyuni
This is a top pick! I decided to take a four day jeep tour from Uyuni to Tupiza. We had all been asured that there would only be a total of 8 people in the jeep, the crew of 2 staff and 6 gringos were.. The driver and frequant mechanic, the cook who spent most of her time ...
To a Hotel made completely of salt
This is a top pick! Up at 6am this morning, to Lorna's delight. Breakfast consisted of bread, dulce de leche, tea and coffee. Then at 7.15am we were off. After about 45mins we arrived at Arbol de Piedra. This was some sort of weird shaped, strangely balanced piece of ...
Salt en flamingo“s
This is a top pick! I did a 4 days tour through the most extraordinary part of Bolivia: the salar de Uyuni and the laguna“s to the south of it. I am now first selecting a representative sample of my +300 pictures I took during the trip. Going to upload those first, story ...
On top of the world
This is a top pick! ... off the trip. Unfortunately Jane and I got a bit carried away on the wine, and ended up spending a fortune over dinner (still only £7 though, but very expensive for Bolivia!!) Not to mention that getting up the next morning was then quite a ...
Surviving the Salar de Uyuni
This is a top pick! ... also superb. All in all four days of eight to ten hours in a jeep, fifth wheeling with extreme thinking time. When in Bolivia there are ways to deal with these things... Off back to La Paz tonight, a day of preparation tomorrow. Been off ...
Uyuni: Wanna watch a road eat a bus?
This is a top pick! ... to seal it. They don“t add minerals to it as it is naturally high in iodine. They then sell it within Bolivia for 8 Bolivianos per 50kg ($1USD/50kg) and this supports the entire community. They also refine the salt into some neat shapes ...
Salt Flat Adventure (Day Two)
This is a top pick! Blurb & Video to follow, when we return to Blighty and proper ...
Salar de Uyni - Bolivia
This is a top pick! ... just returned from the most amazing trip, the journey started in Northern chile and finished 5 days later in Salar de Uyni, Bolivia, taking us through some of the most hostile and extraordinary landscapes of the Americas. The contrast of the journey is ...
Erin runs into something spiky...again
This is a top pick! ... I got to because the grouping was the Dali stones. I thought they looked familiar. We think that Dali was never in Bolivia, and we don't know if he saw the rocks and then painted, or if the two situations were simply coincidental. I ...
The salt flats tour
This is a top pick! ... who was the fool? After drying off (very quickly and vigorously) we faced a 9 hour journey through the desert to the town of Uyuni. We ended out tour just before the town with a visit to the train cemetary. The sun was casting it“s last rays of the ...
Another World
This is a top pick! ... Then again... LA tomorrow, Fiji Friday... He he I kinda ran out of superlatives on my last note about Bolivia. Then I went and did a tour of Salar de Uyuni. A place of the likes I've never seen or experienced before and surely will never even come ...
Feliz Navidat! A Moving Christmas Experience.
This is a top pick! Feliz Navidat! Feliz Navidat! Can you beat Antarctica? We did today, in humble little Uyuni, Bolivia on Christmas Day. As a group of 11 privileged Western travellers, we filed into a little whitewashed building , with squeaky ...
Salt Flat Tour - Day 3
This is a top pick! ok so megga behind on the blogs so quick note for today... Day three was more driving, poor Sun was still feeling the effects of altitute - we drove loads today but seen again many cool lakes and mountains We stayed tonight at the Hotel de Sal - its a ...
Salt Flats and Geysers
This is a top pick! ... keep the peace until the first driver sobered up and normal service was resumed. All in a days“ bus travel in Bolivia !!! We arrived late in the city of Uyuni. Right on the edge of the Bolivian salt plains, this city seemed to be the Cr ewe of Bolivia ...
Salt Flat Tour - Day 4
This is a top pick! ... train graveyard where loads of old unused trains had been left – again though it was freezing and now it was time to head into Uyuni the tour was over and we were miserable – no photos of the salts it was horrible. We arrived at a hostel in ...
Getting High in the Altiplano
This is a top pick! ... the altiplano and there is little enforcement of environmental regulations. The group that cares about environmental protection in Bolivia primarily consists of (relatively) wealthy tourists. Andy and Barrett's key insight was to get the foreigners ...
Shimmering Salt And Fancy Flamingos.
This is a top pick! ... view the old dusty Toyota Land cruiser that will be our transport for the next three days between San Pedro Atacama in Chile to Uyuni in Bolivia. There are 12 of us and two vehicles meaning seven, plus the driver in each vehicle. I just know with my short ...
Salt Flat Adventure (Day Three)
This is a top pick! Blurb & Video to follow, when we return to Blighty and proper ...
Salt, salt everywhere
This is a top pick! ... us and we all three listened to the sales pitch. When we bought the bus ticket we figured we would spend the day in Uyuni relaxing and shopping around for the best tour option. This was in part because we didn't think we could get a tour for ...
Anyone for salt?
This is a top pick! ... and we would not be able to get into town due to road blocks all the way around. Those without jobs (unemployment in Bolivia runs at 60%) had blockaded the town in protest at the lack of employment opportunities. By all accounts a fairly common ...
Salts Flat Tour - Day 4 ..Part 2
This is a top pick! So Sun had managed to convince our already exhausted driver to take us back out on the salt flats for 250B around £7 each WOO HOO – so we heaed off again, Martin didn't come back with us so it was just the 4 of us and to say we were excited was an ...
Blockades and Altitude
This is a top pick! ... (above) is more accurate. Read: I'm a nerdball and want to look cool :) ______________________________________________________ Now we are in Bolivia. We thought we would just check out how serious they are about all the riots and strikes. We made ...
From Coroico to Rurre
This is a top pick! 3345 meters of vertical decent in over 64 km of downhill madness I booked a mountain bike trip to experience the "The World's most dangerous road". We left on a jeep trip ride to La Cumbre at 4640m (15300 feet)where we got on our bike. I opted for a ...
Arica, Arica
This is a top pick! ... during the day. And here's a shot of the Valley of the Moon towards sunset. And now the main story, the 4 day trip to Bolivia. One thing I forgot to mention last time was the music - now it seems that Chileans and Bolivians, and in fact all Latin ...
Salt Flat Adventure (Day Four)
This is a top pick! Blurb & Video to follow, when we return to Blighty and proper ...
Salar de Uyuni Tour
This is a top pick! ... in the water were driving me crazy that I had broken my camera! We continued on, to check out a volcano that straddled the Chile/Bolivia border and then drove through more undulating hills of very dry brown until we came to a big rock, kind of like a ...
From Sucre to Uyuni
This is a top pick! ... . On the day of my arrival, I met up with Silvia at her mom's place and we left for an official ceremony at the Bolivia National Library and Archive in Sucre. Silvias father was a composer and pianist and some of his work was given to the archive. The ...