September 3, 2013 - Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia, Day 1
The salt flat blogs will be mostly pictures. The landscape was unending and ever changing.
We arrived in Uyuni around 9am on a night bus from La Paz. There our tour agent picks us up and we follow her to the office and we wait for the rest of our group to arrive and then head out around 10:45.
Our first stop was the train cemetery. This is where old trains have come to die and give a little bit of entertainment to tourists.
We stopped at a small village on the way to the salt flats. They had the "biggest llama ever" made of salt, along with other statues and well, the building itself was made of salt.
Then we arrived to the salt flats. The beginning of the flats is a bit brown from all the traffic and pollution but the further into the flats we get the whiter the salt becomes.
This first area is were people have been gathering salt to sell. They pile it in a pyramid to let all the water drain from it.
The next stop was an old Salt Hotel. Not much remains except for flag from many nations and a bathroom.
We finally reach the famous salt flats and our group takes several fun perspective photos. We have one lad from England, a girl from Germany, a couple from Switzerland and of course us 2 Americans. It was a lovely group indeed.
Our guide prepared lunch of in the salt flats of llama tbone, veggies, and quinoa.
Then more photos!
Next we stopped at Incahuasi island. A semi oasis in the middle of the salt desert. We payed an additional 30B to hike to the top of the island. It is made of old dead coral from when the salt flats were once part of an ocean. We spent about an hour here taking in the views and hiking to the highest point.
We stopped one last time to take fun photos in the flats and the headed to the hostel for the night.
For our first night we stay in a hostel made completely of salt! The walls and floor are made of salt. The dinner tables and chairs are even made of salt! The floor is even made of loose bits of rock salt. Its awesome!
We have dinner together with another group. Veg soup and chicken.
What I have learned (or rather what I have pondered today): We eat rocks. There are little rocks on our french fries. Its crazy to think of it that way. Rocks. Also, I think the salt flats would have been 1000 times cooler if it were sugar.
The salt flat blogs will be mostly pictures. The landscape was unending and ever changing.
We arrived in Uyuni around 9am on a night bus from La Paz. There our tour agent picks us up and we follow her to the office and we wait for the rest of our group to arrive and then head out around 10:45.
Our first stop was the train cemetery. This is where old trains have come to die and give a little bit of entertainment to tourists.
We stopped at a small village on the way to the salt flats. They had the "biggest llama ever" made of salt, along with other statues and well, the building itself was made of salt.
Then we arrived to the salt flats. The beginning of the flats is a bit brown from all the traffic and pollution but the further into the flats we get the whiter the salt becomes.
This first area is were people have been gathering salt to sell. They pile it in a pyramid to let all the water drain from it.
The next stop was an old Salt Hotel. Not much remains except for flag from many nations and a bathroom.
We finally reach the famous salt flats and our group takes several fun perspective photos. We have one lad from England, a girl from Germany, a couple from Switzerland and of course us 2 Americans. It was a lovely group indeed.
Our guide prepared lunch of in the salt flats of llama tbone, veggies, and quinoa.
Then more photos!
Next we stopped at Incahuasi island. A semi oasis in the middle of the salt desert. We payed an additional 30B to hike to the top of the island. It is made of old dead coral from when the salt flats were once part of an ocean. We spent about an hour here taking in the views and hiking to the highest point.
We stopped one last time to take fun photos in the flats and the headed to the hostel for the night.
For our first night we stay in a hostel made completely of salt! The walls and floor are made of salt. The dinner tables and chairs are even made of salt! The floor is even made of loose bits of rock salt. Its awesome!
We have dinner together with another group. Veg soup and chicken.
What I have learned (or rather what I have pondered today): We eat rocks. There are little rocks on our french fries. Its crazy to think of it that way. Rocks. Also, I think the salt flats would have been 1000 times cooler if it were sugar.
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