Tambo Aymara Uyuni

... warned of this and tried to hire sleeping bags, only to be told it wasn´t cold this time of year so we didn´t need them! No worries we found wine so we were feeling a tad warmer after two bottles.<br><br>The next day we see the red lake and the flamingoes...who although they look nice absolutely stink!! Mainly because they eat their own poo....even Al isn´t that bad. We arrive at the next hotel....not made of ...

... tour alone, which would have been very boring for me. At 07:50 there was still nobody else there and I started to think that maybe I wasn´t going on the tour at all, which would have been even worse! Luckily a few minutes later a Dutch and a Peruvian arrived, and they were followed a few minutes later by two Canadians and the coach arrived shortly afterwards for the first leg of the tour. Turns out the Canadians were told to arrive for 07:45 and the Dutch and Peruvian were told 08:00 ...

... fashion and were made entirely of fossilized plants. The process created fan like fossils that were bright white. One of the singly most amazing formations I´ve ever seen. We left the cave and walked a few hundred feet over to a neighboring cavern that was a burial shrine for a long gone people. Humps with 18inch square holes marked the multiple graves in the cave and a few skulls were left to convince you of the´caves use if you had any doubt. <br>We spent that night in another hotel ...

... their conquests", to which Phil sensitively replies "apart from the Roman empire, love".<br><br>5) In the Bolivian tour operator Alex (girl) asks - "when we go looking for venemous snakes, does our guide have anti-venom", to which our operator replies "Yes of course, all meals are included".<br><br>6) In the Peruvian police station, sat opposite a detective who says "So you say you had your wallet, documents, and ...

... loads of cactus, some as old as a 1000 years. We finished up at a disused salt hotel and watched the sun setting on the salt - a really great day and trip. My only advice for anyone finding themselves in this part of the world is take the full 3 day trip across the flats and see the lakes and other sites that are just too much for a day trip, it is so difficult to get here you might as well make the most of it once you do!<br><br>

... literally takes us the entire day to find our next route. There´s no night bus to Uyuni, which was our original plan. Plus we´ve decided that with the asbestos, silica and having to literally sign your life away prior to doing a salt mine trip (Add in a little old tendency towards claustophobia) that Potosi isn´t a great plan. It´s a regular stop off to the salt lakes and basically has a very interesting history. It has the silver mines ...

... stopped to let people off for a bathroom break or else he might have had a flood on his hands...<br><br>The bus arrive on time in La Paz but I think I must of had only one hour sleep... <br>a 10 block walk to the hostel with backpacks at 3600 meters was fun !!!<br>Its day of the dead here so everything is shut so a nice day chilling - even the witches market was pretty much closed - did see some llama fetuses though... <br>

... treat them as giant phalli for photos (she knows who she is). Not overly spectacular, but a decent warm-up act and a handy place to take a quick pee. After an obligatory artisan shop stop where we saw how salt was processed and took photos as if they were large stacks of cocaine (I&#8217;ll be Crockett, you be Tubbs!) we soon came to the first salt hotel (built out of the very salt it sits on &#8211; coooool..&#8230;and very white) where they had kind of a neat ...

... that he knows what he is doing. Heute haben wir die 10-stuendige Busfahrt von Laz Paz nach Uyuni ueberlebt. Nicht mal die Laenge der Fahrt was das Schlimmste, es waren die letzten 5 Stunden auf ungepflasteter Strasse. Ich habe kein Auge zu gekriegt. In YUyuni angekommen wir alle waren total muede. Placebo unser Touroperator, Fahrer, Koch und Gastgeber hat uns mit einen grossen Laecheln begruesst. Wir habe dann den Landrover Jeep mit unseren ...

... beers and went to bed.<br><br>All fired up to go, we arrive at the agreed time the next day to encounter our first hurdle - the price. Our legit lady from last night now wanted more cash than we'd agreed. A foolish error on her part, because as far as I was concerned she wasn't getting a penny more that the agreed price. With a few fairly direct statements from me we cleared ...