Hotel Avenida Uyuni

... shooting out of them. Lucy and I were enjoying the scenery when Mike and Alex decided to pretend they were on Stars in their Eyes and burst through the steam yelling ´tonight matthew....´!! we have a great video!<br><br>A couple of hours later we hit civilisation in the form of Chile!! Until we realise that we´re now paying london prices for everything....there´s only one thing for it.......jump on a bus........

... First day included some more geysers, but unlike in Chile we were able to climb around on these ones, which was good. We also passed various lagoons, flamingos, llamas and other llama type animals.<br><br>At the lunch break there was some old German who sounded like she was practically dying or something. She seemed to just be slightly short of breath, which was probably the same for everyone there. We also visited another geothermal hot bath during lunch, and unlike the one in ...

... the effects in their roundness and pock marks. This I think is when we all started to feel like we were on a different planet all together. Really though we were walking on an ancient sea floor. Next stop brought us to our first lagoon of the day. Filled with several different types of flamingos. They were the first any of us had ever seen. After a little break for lunch it was time to load back into the Rover and we headed off. the ground around us flattened out a bit and turned ...

... stolen? But where is your evidence? I can not investigate this case. Impossible!".<br><br>7) On our jungle tour our guide advised "dont worry its safe to swim here, the pink dolphins keep the piranhas and alligators away", to which we reply "errr, what pink dolphins".<br><br>8) Whilst bartering for a ride in a minicab Alex says "how much", minicab driver says "10 soles", to which Alex replies "will you take 100 soles ...

... to the spanish conquest, when they arrived, as they did with everything, they pillaged it the bone. However so the story goes, it was english/dutch/italian money behind the conquests and therefore that´s where the majority of the benefits returned. It apparently quadrupled the European wealth, and therefore led to europe being the financal stronghold, well till recently, that it is. Anyway the main thing to do in this place is go down a ...

Feeling it was finally time to get active again, assuming, of course, that active means spending 8-12 hours per day in a bus or jeep coaxing along an ever-growing set of hemorrhoids, we hit the road south from La Paz, taking a night bus down to Uyuni. This dusty little railroad town has a nice quiet feel and one kick-ass restaurant (Minuteman Pizza &#8211; best pizzas we've had yet, and we&#8217;ve had quite a few). Most people just stick around one night (if that) before ...

Today we survived the 10 hours bus trip from Laz Paz to Uyuni. It was not even the lenght of the trip.The last 5 hours of unpaved road was the killer. I was not able to get any sleep. So we all arrived very tired in Uyuni. Placebo our tour operator, driver, cook and host greeted us with his big smile and asked us to help loading our bags to the roof of his Landrover Jeep. You can see the Jeep has done this tour through the dessert 1000 times already ...

... to get the padlock removed from our on suite toilet. I kid you not. I spent an hour haggling over what price we'd have to pay to have a toilet.<br> <br> <br><br>Day two involved some pretty full on off roading. Lucky for us, our driver Felix, took his job very seriously and got us and the jeep through in one piece. Another group didn't even make it past the Salt Hotel ...

Hola,<br><br>We left Potasi the next day and headed of to Uyani, a bit of a ghost town in the middle of the Bolivian desert. We expected cowboys to come riding down the street at any minute!!!! This was our stop off before heading to Salar de Uyani, the Bolivian salt flats which are over 12 thousand square kilometers. It was originally part of the pacific but when the pacific tectonic plate pushed the Andes up, the lake was isolated and eventually evaporated leaving a ...

... 30 years and girls in the national costume which seems to consist of very tiny glittery shiny skirts they twirl about, interesting!!<br><br>We hopped into 4 wheel drives for the 3 day trip into the desert, chris, cammie, darren and i were in one together. First a quick stop to the train cemetery - yes dead trains stuck in the desert - before we hit the salt flats. And yep theyare impressive, seemingly endless miles ...