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Uyuni Slideshow
Uyuni
Travel Blogs from Uyuni, Bolivia
salar
... a relatively flat expanse in the middle of the widest part of the Andes covering some of Southern Peru, and much of Western Bolivia. The altitude seems to average around 4000 meters (14,000 feet for you metrically non-inclined readers). In the center of ...
Salar de Uyuni
... weerspiegelde op de vlakte. Resultaat: te veel foto’s maar wel enkele pareltjes! Wist-je-dat? *we tijdens onze busrit narar Uyuni konden genieten van Alapacie droomland *we op dit moment opnieuw in La Paz zijn en straks de bus nemen naar Copacabana ...
The Uyuni slat flats
A three day jeep drive in the south of Bolivia passing some of the most stunning scenery I´ve ever seen. Salt flats, desert landscapes and vast lakes - have a ...
The Beauty Goes On (by KCT)
... trip! We have never seen such beautiful landscapes before and we would go back to these places anytime! From Uyuni, a very small city located southwest of Bolivia, we went on a 3-days-tour with a 4WD Toyota Landcruiser to see salt flats, volcanoes, ...
13/07/05 - 16/07/05
I am so glad that I´d gotten over my illness before I started this 4 day, 3 night tour through the Southwest of Bolivia. If I ever complain of a British winter again then please remind me of this. I have never been so bloody cold in my entire life. ...
Quick stop off
We had a very brief stop in Uyuni. We had planned to stay over for a night but the buses the following day were fully booked so we booked tickets for that evening and spent a short 6 hours there. The town itself was very small and its main purpose is as ...
Would you like salt on that?
... the way, we had one more stop to visit the Train Cemetary. This is basically a dumping ground just outside Uyuni, where the government has abandoned about thirty old trains. We managed to take a couple more pics and then seeing that ...
Station 6: Salar de Uyuni und Umgebung
Von La Paz aus gings ueber eine grauenhafte Schotterpiste nach Uyuni. Hier kann man Touren durch den suedbolivianischen Nationalpark buchen. Und dort gibt es wirklich so dermasse surreale Landschaften,... das kann man sich nicht vorstellen. (Inaktive) ...
Uyuni (suite)
Bonjours! Notre deuxième journée à Uyuni a commencé avec la visite d'une petite ville nommée San Juan. Par la suite, nous avons arrêté dans un endroit où il y avait d'intéressantes formations de roches volcaniques. Puis nous avons ...
Southern Bolivia (Salar De Uyuni)
... of the ground); and Laguna Verde (an emerald green lagoon that sits right below a volcano Some interesting facts I discovered: Salar de Uyuni is estimated to contain 10 billion tons of salt of which less than 25,000 tons is extracted annually. Every ...
Salar de Uyuni Tour - Day 1
... you can see I split this up into the 4 days otherwise it would be information and picture overload!! This tour is quite famous in Bolivia and many travellers will come here to do it (the tour I mean!!), there are a few different options. For example we ...
South West Bolivia and the Salt Flats
... other people to our party and booked a 4 day jeep trip through the barren expanse of south west bolivia, including the worlds largest salt flats at Uyuni. 6 pasengers in a Land Cruiser for 4 solid days wasnt the most comfortable of experiences, and it ...
Surviving the Salar de Uyuni
... of interesting photos, tho the desert does get a little dry after a few days. I will have to wait to upload photos tho, at Uyuni Internet connex run below 1997 levels. I was going to head to Potosi today, the famous mining town east of here, but was ...
Cementerio de Trenes
... in Uyuni Sophia and I set off on a 3 day tour of Salar de Uyuni (The salt flats. Our first stop was his amazing train cemetery on the outskirts of the town. Its where all the locomotives of Bolivia come to die and it was great having a wander ...
Salar deUyuni
... off in sub-zero Uyuni at 7am to go and find our tour guides. Uyuni is the place where all the tours of South-western Bolivia begin, and I´d booked a 4 day tour of the Salar de Uyuni. It´s basically 4 days off-roading it in a jeep in some of ...
Durch die Salzwüste
... Llamas. Oder Alpakas. Auf jeden Fall waren es richtig tolle Anden-Bilder; genau so wie wir uns das vorgestellt hatten. Uyuni selbst ist ein komisches Örtchen und hat ausser einer Strassenkreuzung nicht soo viel zu bieten. Ausserdem liegt es auf ...
When Santa came to the Salt Flats
We finally got a white Christmas, admittedly it was salty but it was still white! So to not bore you with the details, we spent Christmas Day driving around the Salt Flats in a 4x4 jeep. We had Christmas Dinner on a little island covered in ...
Salar de Uyuni Tour - Day 2
Up at 5.30am in the freezing bloody cold, had breaky and off we go in the car again. We first stopped at some ancient town ruins in the middle of no where, its dated back to when the Spaniards took over, they used to mine here but not anymore as the ...
Salar de Uyuni
... As we were returning back to Chile we stayed for a couple of hours at the largest town in the area called Uyuni, and then got in another jeep for the return journey. This involved another 9 hours of driving, with an overnight stay. We ...
Uyuni Salt Plains
So, an early rise this morn as we were off on a full day trip to the uyuni salt plains. First off we were picked up by our guides and taken to a really random ´train cemetery´ where loads of old steam trains were placed and rusting....v random but kind ...
Salt, glorious salt!
We drove to the bottom of Bolivia to the town of Uyuni which is on the edge of the largest salt flats in the world (it used to be a sea). We took an overnight trip onto the salt flats and visited a salt processing plant and a hotel made in entirely of ...
Breathtaking Bolivia!
... ...it´s pretty much exactly what we did! http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi/blog-2473.html UYUNI, Bolivia We met up again with Peter and Martin for our tour of southern Bolivia which started in Uyuni...one of ...
Day 55 – Stunning, everywhere you look
We woke up this morning after a questionable sleep in our salt hotel. The saggy bed was as uncomfortable as we expected and I still have issues sleeping at altitude. At altitude, it’s not uncommon for people to feel short of breath and have ...
Day 22!
Up early today for the next leg of the journey through to the atacama desert. Pretty awesome day with more great scenery and hectic 4 wheel drive tracks! Most of the day was spent caining along. We checked out a semi volcanic mountain from a distance, a ...
Salar de Uyuni to La Paz
... cos outside there´s a massive lake. It even has an irish flag outside too (de oirish we´re everywhere!) Then it was onto Uyuni where we had lunch. Nikki and Richard headed back to San Pedro. Myself, Erik, Oyvind and Simen had a few hours to spare ...
El salar de uyuni
... hacia un frio de mucho cuidado. Ya hemos notado el mal de altura que mezclado con el frio y todo lo demas han echo la llegada a bolivia mas dura de lo que esperabamos. Estamos a mas de 3500 mts de altura, en medio de la nada pero.... El salar de uyuni ...
Day 21!
Day one of our 4 wheel drive desert adventure. The group was split up into 3 Toyota Landcruisers for our 3 day journey. First up we headed not far out of town where we checked out a bunch of old steam train locomotives and rollingstock left to rust ...
Asalted by some geysers
With Paul's altitude sickness cured we started out on our 4 day jeep tour to the Salt Plains of Uyuni. The tour would takes us through more breathtaking canyons, nerve jangling roads on the edge of vast Andean Mountains, huge savannah like plains, desert, ...