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- Boliviano (BOB)
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Travel Blogs from Uyuni, Bolivia
Bolivia - Day 4
April 27th, 2006 - Uyuni 6:20pm Thursday, April 27th The following morning, Julieta left at 7:30am to go to Cuzco by bus, while I took a half-day trip to a town called Chacataya, Bolivia´s main place to go skiing. I had organized the trip through ...
Day 18
... at 6,542 metres (21,460 ft) located in the Oruro Department. Lake Titicaca is located on the border between Bolivia and Peru. The Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, lies in the southwest corner of the country, in the department of Potosí. ...
Sun, Sand and Sulphur!
... border town of Villazon, although brief, immediately allowed us to appreciate the difference between Argentina and Bolivia. Well known as the poorest South American country Boliva was awash with unpaved ...
The Salt Flats
... much. Our final day was another early start to see the sun rise on the salt flats.This was the great salt flat of Uyuni which something like 15,000 km sq. Its pristine white desert as far as the eye can see. We stopped of at ...
Salar de Uyuni and volcano country
We did a three day trip into the Salar de Uyuni and deserts and volcano country of south west Bolivia with Andes Salt Expeditions. It was a great trip, the scenery is unreal. We started in the Salar de Uyuni, a vast salt pan, over 12,000 square ...
Salt, singing and sickness on the Salar de Uyuni
... the pictures speak for themselves on that. Then it was onward to see the wrecks of the British trains abandoned outside Uyuni, and gain our first taste of Bolivia proper. Well... we say that, in our ailing state we took the pussy's option and checked into ...
Salt desert (Salar de Uyuni, Bolivian Salt Flats)
... place was probably the main reason (or at least one of the most important ones) why we went to Bolivia... The size of Salar de Uyuni (over 10 000 square kilometers, or around 4 000 square miles) makes it the largest salt flat in ...
The Uyuni Calama-ty
... help us with our proposed itinerary. The plan was to take a three day tour from San Pedro up to the salt flats at Uyuni in Bolivia, visiting geysers and coloured lakes on the way but, having spoken to a very helpful tour guide, we decided to postpone that ...
Into Bolivia on the well travelled road!
... crossing the border was great, got some great views of Licancabur Volcano and then it was off into the National Park of Bolivia. There are loads of lagoons here, started of with some amazing reflections at Laguna Blanca and the awesome green coloration ...
The Bolivian Altiplano
... a good deal of 600Bs for a 3 day tour including a sleeping bag, departing tomorrow. I won't bore anyone with a description of Uyuni, it really is just a few streets filled with tourist agencies and some small shops. However, I have found some of the best ...
White Buildings and White Salt Flats
... green rolling hills of Samaipata and nine hours drive through the dusty cactus forests, we arrived in Sucre, the judicial capital of Bolivia and a town steeped in history. From our beautiful homestay on the hill in the suburb of Recoleta we had ...
SW Circuit: Otherworldly Surfaces in Brrr-livia
April 24-28, 2009: SW Circuit (from Tupiza to Uyuni), Bolivia Hanging Out With Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid/Brief Intro to Bolivia I spent my first full day in Bolivia wandering around the frontier town of Tupiza and sorting out my jeep tour ...
(sat: 28/09/02) departed puno peru and ...
(Sat: 28/09/02). Departed Puno, Peru and headed South towards Bolivia. Passed evidence of road blocks set up by the locals to disrupt (and stone) passing traffic on the day of the general strike. Nice. Got to sit up front of the truck with Aussie driver ...
First Class to Uyuni. From one hole to another
... are finally out of Tupiza! Liz is all recovered and we made our escape in very classy fashion, via a first class train, arriving in Uyuni at midnight last night. The first class wasn´t all caviar and Dom P, but it was heated, with full recliners and was ...
The biggest salt flat in the wooorrrllldd!!
... background. Dotted along the way were random crosses marking graves....the mind wanders at why they were there and under what circumstances. We arrived back to Uyuni after a fascinating day and waited for our bus which would take us to La ...
San Pedro de Atacama and Salar de Uyuni
... anxious to keep moving. Our goal from San Pedro was to book a 4x4 tour through the salt flats of Bolivia ending in the town of Uyuni. There are countless companies offering this tour so we starting checking in to see what each offered. They all seemed ...
Olivia reaches Bolivia
To get to Bolivia....or at least somewhere habitable in Bolivia we did a 3 day rattle over the Bolivian dessert and salt flats in the back of a 4x4 accompanied by 2 Scots and a Croat and of course Bolivia - the driver! We started in San Pedro in a ...
Salar de Uyuni and Sud Lipez
... landscapes, I think I should let the pictures speak for themselves... Nous venons juste de terminer une excursion de 3 jours dans le Salar de Uyuni (immense désert de sel, 12500 km2) et dans la région du Sud Lípez. A mon avis, les paysages les ...
Butch Cassidy eat your heart out!
... hotel room. (3pound for an hour, a splash-out I think was justified!!). Tour 2, The Salar del Uyuni tour is the most famous and popular in Bolivia. 4 days in a jeep travelling around the most remote and beautiful scenery imaginable (actually it was ...
Weak and watery
... to rain. Soon the streets were about a foot deep in water - flowing in torrents. Dismounting our horses became a major hazard. High Bolivia only gets 300mm of rain each year - the problem is not quantity but the complete absence of drains. It says a ...
My Birthday! Uyuni Salt Lakes
... dinner, where Freddie announced that his birthday present from his parents was money to go out for a nice meal. Well we were in Bolivia so the money actually meant we all had huge dinner of pizza, and then went to the cactus bar and drank all night, ...
The One Where we Partied in The Desert
Servus!! In Uyuni angekommen, die bis jetzt mit abstand haesslichste Stadt die wir bis jetzt gesehen haben, sind wir schnell in ein Tour-Buero gegangen, da sich ein gewaltiger Sandsturm angenaehert hat. Wir waren zusammen mit einem Deutschen, 2 ...
Day of Waiting and Todo Turismo
... and went for breakfast and eventually, out of laziness, we went with Fatima, the gold toothed tout who had been following us around all morning... salar de uyuni... 3 dias - 2 noches...! We bought our supplies and off we went...into www.loopylamb.com ...
Salt Plains
... few photos of the journey to give you a flavour. The end of the tour marked the end of our time in Bolivia ... a great country with great people, sights, suonds and especially prices. We only wished we could have stayed longer! Sorry ...
Heaven = Earth
... geweldig of prachtig was, met uitzondering van Iguazu en Porito Moreno misschien. Het gebied tussen San Pedro de Atacama (Chili) en Uyuni (Bolivia) is zo verschrikkelijk mooi, dat er geen andere conclusie te trekken valt dat de hemel zich gewoon op aarde ...
Potosi & Uyuni
... ;rather than the British, when the guide mentioned a few British pirates!). We then had a really rough day on the road to get to Uyuni which is famous for the Salar de Uyuni, the world´s largest salt flat. We had a great day out on the salt flats and ...
Uyuni
Hola there!! We have made it to Uyuni in Bolivia after 3 days in a 4x4 across what seem the worst roads we have ever been on & across a salt flats covered 10cms of water!! Yes thats right. Talk about a change in direction. This wasnt in the ...
Salt Flats
... . There were piles and piles of salt just outside the town. Our last stop was the "train graveyard", just outside of Uyuni. It is a collection of old, rusted trains all abandoned in the same place. After enjoying my first hot shower in ...