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Uyuni Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Uyuni, Bolivia
salzsee
... einfach nicht umgehen...zoomt mal in die karte rein, dann seht ihr was ich die naechsten tage vor mir habe. Salar de Uyuni ist der name. Da Regenzeit ist weigern sich die Tourunternehmen in die eigentliche Salar zu fahren...mit der Begruendung das alles ...
Salty
We picked up two Swedes in the Koala Den and headed South for a three day Jeep tour to witness salt, lakes, flamingoes, volcanic bubbling mud, geysers and hot springs. And a gimp in all of these locations. Temperature was about minus 10 at ...
Can you pass the salt please...?
We've gathered early in the morning to finally leave Chile and begin the 3 day adventure into Bolivia via the largest salt flats in the world, passing lagoons, volcano's, hot springs and spurting geysers. After days of being refused exit (snow/ rain/ gas ...
Salt, sky, sand and slumming it!!
... ) a break as he heads off on these 3 or 4 day 9 hour driving days 6 times a month.. bonkers! So, the Salar de Uyuni.... the worldīs largest salt flat, was INCREDIBLE... the most fucking amazing landscape I have ever seen! Blue, blue and white and more ...
Salar de Uyuni Largest Salt Flats in the World
... in Bolivia this is a trip that is highly recomend the Salar should be one of the 7 natural wonders of the world!! A trip to Bolivia wouldnīt be complete without a trip to a working mine at 13,420 feet Potosi is one of the higest city in the world Potosi ...
Salt Flats Tour: Day 1
... playing pan pipes for some skewed-perspective photos later on. In the room adjacent to the shop was also "The Largest Llama in Bolivia", essentially a massive and rather bored-looking llama made out of sand. I couldn't be arsed to take a photo. The first ...
Salar de Uyuni Trip - Day 1
... on other trips!) to have our last shower for a few days only to find that there was no electricity in the whole of Uyuni! No electricity in Bolivia means no hot shower. We met our guide (Omar) our cook (Rita) and the rest of our group that we would be ...
3 Day Jeep tour - SPDA to Uyuni
... so it was ok. In the jeep again and Omar gave us all lollipops (they seem to love lollipops in Bolivia), which kept us quiet for a while until our next stop! Doog was feeling partuculary bad at this point in the journey, the ...
Southwest Circuit
... incredible scenery I have ever come across. With some fellow travelers we hired a jeep (brand Toyosa not Toyota ... yeaaa Bolivia!) to explore the surreal landscape that I can best describe as a cross between the American southwest and the Moon, ...
The Giant Salt flats of Uyuni
... other for years to come. Our first stop was to the train cemetery on the edge of Uyuni town, trains used to transport minerals out of Bolivia to Chile have been sitting here for more than 150 years rusting away. It seems mad, the scrap ...
De zoutvlaktes van Uyuni
... geen spaans. In ruil heb ik dus de beste plaats in de auto. In een jeep gaan we de grens over met Bolivia. Stempeltje honderduzend halen en weer een papiertje invullen. Ach het begint te wennen. En dan begint een driedaagse reis door een surealitische ...
Salar de Uyuni (Salt Flats)
... not take a lunch break in order to take advantage of time, getting energy by chewing coca leaves. Every November, Salar de Uyuni is also the breeding grounds for three species of South American flamingos - Chilean, James's and Andean. The sights were ...
The salt flats and beyond
After a very hungover day in La Paz we headed to Uyuni on the night bus. We had booked our salt flats tour so that we could get straight on the jeep that morning. One of the pieces of advice everyone gives you is to not book the tour over the ...
Viviendo El Ahora
When the Volcano erupted, the Earth opened up and swallowed the Sea leaving behind miles of blinding white. Thus, the Salar de Uyuni (the Uyuni salt flats) were born. I wrote: I am coated in salt, dust, and dried sweat. My pants are probably ...
Dead people, dead trains and dead electrics!
... which used the image of a balloon of water going back into the tap, so we guess this must be the pattern all over Bolivia (if not beyond). The local museum describes itself as el primero museo de la cuidad, which can be translated as either the first ...
Bolivian Salt Desert - INCREDIBLE!!
Im back form my 3 day tour.... was amazing, I was right, things happen for a reason. The tour company was honest, the guide was funny and sweet, the cook was decent. My tour group was me and 5 Brits aged 18 - 22. They were fun, and very ...
trip to Mars
When we decided to take a trip in the Uyuni salt desert we did not expect to leave planet Earth for Mars! But this is exactly what it felt like to drive with the 4x4 through this incredible region of salt deserts, lagunas of different colors, geysers and ...
Still on the Salar.
Our 2nd and 3rd days were equally as strange, in that the landscape continued to change but it was magnificant in its huige vast amounts of space, volcano, sierra and rocky outcrops. These days were spent visiting the many lakes, lagoons in the south of ...
Stuck in Uyuni
... and so are (some of) the people. So we had a major argument brought on by stress of being stranded in a salty desert in Bolivia until B had the brainwave of trying the agency we booked our salt flat tour with. Handily the lady was really nice (we have ...
Another quick stop
... the amount of agencies offering trips so were very pleased to read this blog entry which mentioned Ranking Bolivia. Ranking Bolivia (address: Potosi 9) is a free service which takes in completed questionnaires from travellers and compiles the results. ...
altitude hurts
9 hour train journey to go 190k, couldnt breath from the altitude, hangs overs hurt like hell at high altitude, salt flats there were really cool. Island of fish was cool ...
To Uyuni
This is a top pick! ... went to the train station to get us tickets to Uyuni. We'd heard that the buses from Oruro to Uyuni were very bumpy (since almost all the roads in Bolivia are unpaved) and not that safe at night. On Friday, we'd asked the girls at the ...
Bathing in a 'white sea'
... my RTW itinerary, about seeing this remain of the pre-historic salt lake, which used to stretch through most of the south-west Bolivia. Once the lake dried up, it left us a few salt pans with Salar de Uyuni being the biggest one. Knowing that the bus ...
Salt Flats
... . I went with te first lasy who offered me a tour to her office. At 10am I left on a tour of the salt flats of Bolivia in a jeep with 6 others. Within half an hour we were driving over the largest salt flat in th eworld, 11,000 square km and 3 meteres ...
Salar de Uyuni
... of winter. Itīs at about 4,000m above sea level and is unbearably cold at this time of year. However, I donīt think Uyuni would be a particularly attractive prospect in Summer either because there is nothing there. It is a grim, low rise, grid system ...
Amazing Scenery and Funny Photos
... arriving near the end of the 19th century, and construction was encouraged by the Bolivian President who believed Bolivia would flourish with a good transport system, but it was also constantly sabotaged by the local Aymara indigenous Indians ...