Hotel Tayka Del Desierto Uyuni

... started with the photography.....after knowing Mike for approximately an hour he wasn´t shy at asking to me to get down on all fours, luckily his girlfiend and Al were there!! (Don´t worry parents nothing pervy...just look at the photos!)<br><br>We had sooo much fun taking the photos we managed a quick glance around us and then we arrived at our first hotel...made of salt and pretty cold. Just as well we had ...

... binary star system, the crab nebula and other things. This was very interesting for me as some of the telescopes were quite enormous and the view from the Atacama desert is more or less as perfect as it gets unless you go above the Earth´s atmosphere.<br><br>The next morning I set off to the Colque Tours office and got there about 07:20, in plenty of time for the 07:30 start time I was told. About 07:35 there was nobody else there and I started to think that maybe I was going on ...

... As we climbed the rocky slopes we bantered as to weather we were standing on rock or coral, but once we covered a little more ground it was obvious we were surrounded by and walking on ancient coral fossils. The only other living things, besides the tourists, for miles around were the cactus and little birds living off them. Our next stop was a cave on the edge of the flats composed once we we´re served up a dish of visual delight. the roof and walls were jumping out at us in ...

... 10 top quotes of the trip so far.<br><br>1) Whalewatching - Phil "Look there´s a whale! Oh no its a bird."<br><br>2) Surf instructor Isidro - "If you go in thigh deep, you die. If you go in Knee deep, maybe you die".<br><br>3) Inca tour guide Jimmy - "I´m not addicted to Coca leaves, i´ve just done them every day for 15 years".<br><br>4) On the discussion of crusades Alex (girl) - "well the Italians were not known ...

... amazing to see but i hope a couple of the picures do it justice.<br><br>The white stretches so far that you can play with perspective and take some great pictures with props (hence the dinosaur picture) - at least they say you can but it isn't quite as easy as it looks and we only managed a couple of half decent pictures after a lot of practice!!<br><br>We had lunch at Fish Island which is a rocky outcrop covered in loads ...

... to keep our stomach contents internal and then it´s a nice slam back to altitude to make you feel dizzy and nauseas. <br>So after arriving back in La Paz on Monday morning, it´s a different place to the one we left. Everywhere is shut and there is ************e around, it takes the so called catholic far too long to realise it´s all saints day and therefore a national holiday. So bit of a mission to try and fight our way out of La Paz ...

... seats were tiny.... <br><br>Met two Icelandic girls on the bus one had her backpack stolen right under our noses as we sat on the bus. Fortunately there was nothing but food and socks and some blankets in it...<br><br>well the journey stared no loo and we spent 8 hours on unpaved roads with the temperature dropping.. For a non stop service we certainly stopped a lot to let locals on and off the bus <br><br>Luckily at 2am the ...

... off with since our river trip down to Rurrenabaque. With four days of rubbing knees in 4x4 country, jostling with each other for photos and sharing night ***** in cold dorm rooms it makes a big difference to spend it with someone you know and like, as well as occasionally fear and resent.<br><br>First stop was the Train Cemetery where, you might have guessed, trains go to die, rust and finally go to heaven in the form of being covered in anti-Bush graffiti and having lewd ...

... The second day we visited different lagoons populated by flamingos. Afterwards went to the Dessert of Siloli and visit an interesting rocky formation known as the "Stone Tree" The last day we got up at 4am to visit the Geisers. Firstly Placebo had to fix the jeep, somehow he lost a part in the bonnet and the car did not want to start...ohhhh hope we will make it to San Pedro today ???? But he never loses his big smile and that gives us the confident ...

... br>The schedule was tight. We wanted to get on a tour for the following day. Uyuni is not a town you stick around in. Every tour company basically offers the same deal and are as shady as the next. We got cornered by some woman who talked a pretty good game and seemed above board. We agreed a price and our departure time. Confident we were on to a winner, we knocked back a ...