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Uyuni Slideshow
Uyuni
Travel Blogs from Uyuni, Bolivia
I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore!
... we really were exploring a new planet. The two night/three day tour took us 100s of kilometers over the 9000km2 Salar de Uyuni, the white crackled patchwork of salt, into a desert of rare coloured lagoons, flocks of flamingos, muddy geysers and luna ...
More salt anyone?
... eyelid, though he did frown as he changed the wheel! He smiled when we said goodbye with our "thank you" in his pocket. Uyuni appeared unimpressive as we enter from the wrong side of the tracks, but our view brightened as we saw how they were paving ...
Salar Uyuni Salt flats....
So my bus ride to uyuni was a nightmare...... Picture this.... A corrugated road so bad i was jumping out of my seat, thick dust i could barely breath, a fat Bolivian man sitting next to me who was snoring and dropping his heavy arm onto me, add some ...
Another world!
Ayuni is just a desert town, but at an altitude of 4,000 metres above sea level, and beyond here are the salt flats, which are between 4,000 and 5,000 metres high. The landscape is the weirdest and most hostile I have ever encountered. It is not ...
J'veux du désert
... et pouvant être une des solutions énergétiques du futur, n’entrainera pas sa surexploitation… A coté du Salar de Uyuni se trouve un autre désert, le Lipez, tout aussi magnifique avec ses chaines de volcan et ses lagunes colorées dont ...
Pass the vinegar....
So after three days of both Al and I feeling pretty rotten, we decide to make a dash for it and head to the salt plains! We set off with two other couples (Phil and girl Alex went on ahead) they were an English couple Mike and Lucy and American ...
unwirkliche welten in der salzwueste uyuni
... dort zu verbringen. am naechsten tageb war es dann soweit: wir befahren die groesste salzwueste der welt: salar de uyuni ! waaahnsinn ! wirklich extrem surreale glaenzend weisse unendlichkeit ! ein besuch der isla de las pescadores (fischinsel !!???) mit ...
Uyuni: Into the Salts of the Unknown
... endlessly across the days and flats. It was another incredible experince and weary, dusty, dirty and salty we headed back to Uyuni where we enjoyed a pizza extravaganza and hot showers before we embarked on our longest and most difficult part of the trip ...
Largest Salt Flats in the World
From Potosi another beautful bus ride (?) followed to Uyuni in the south of Bolivia. I think I will write a bit on overland travel on this blog (but another time), as I have spent over a week on buses now! But lets put it this way they are interesting, ...