Salt, glorious salt!

Trip Start Oct 17, 2006

Trip End Mar 04, 2007

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Flag of Bolivia Uyuni, Bolivia
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

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 salt - even the chairs and beds!! We stopped for lunch at Fish Island which is covered in cacti, one of which is over 1000 years old!! The island was made of coral, as it used to be underwater, and there was a beautiful intact coral bridge. We walked to the top of the island and had great views over the salt flats which stretched as far as I could see - a truly amazing sight. We stayed at a hostel overnight so got to see sunset which was quite pretty and I was also able to stargaze really easily as the sky was so clear and there was very little light pollution. I've never seen so many stars! The following day we drove to an island with a really colourful and beautiful volcano. We saw some mummies (yes more mummies) and also flamingos and llamas before driving back to Uyuni.

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01 Nowley, Mary and Paul waiting for the train!	02 At the train graveyard	03 Making salt at the salt processing plant	04 The jeeps we traveled across the salt flats in
05 Me coming out of a bottle	06 View from Fish Island (a lot of salt!)	07 Ness & me by a 1200 year old cactus	08 Coral bridge (yes it is really made of coral)
09 Being shaken out onto the salt flats!!	10 Salt flats at dusk	11 Yet another mummy (last one - honest!)	12 Church
13 Volcano Tunupa	14 Flamingos flying over the salt flats	15 Llamas	16 The Salt Hotel (made entirely of salt)
17 Room inside the salt hotel	18 Water bubbling on the salt flats