Salar de Uyuni is the world´s largest salt flat. It is vast, white and truly a natural wonder! Our tour landed us in a Land Cruizer with a slightly not too friendly Bolivian guide (who told me that because I´m white I don´t know how drive on dirt roads). However, once this misconception was swiftly corrected, we got on with an incredible experience.
The salt flats themselves seem to stretch into forever. The whiteness makes it a photographers hell, or playground, depending - there is no depth of field because of the endless white, and with a little (or a lot) you can get some really fun shots. We never ever quite got the focus down but had fun never-the-less! We visited Inca Huasi, one of the flats´ "islands". An incredible landscape awaited us "ashore" with giant, we´re talking up to 12m high, cactusses standing guard. It felt prehistoric.
Our tour took us past the salt mines, a train graveyard and areas that we thought only existed in Star Wars and Star Trek movies. Endless, weird and amazing! We took an outer galaxy-like trip past blood red Laguna Colorado, Arbol de Piedra and Desierto de Dali rock formations, thermal springs in the freezing desert landscape, the volcanoes of Licancabur and Uturuncu, the bright green Laguna Verde and ended in the smoking and steaming crater of the volcano Sol de Manana!
Truly indescribalbe landscape!
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| The old train graveyard outside of Uyuni. |
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| Inca Huasi |
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| Our tasty salt walls! |
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| Coral... in a desert... at 4500m? |
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| Andean Rock Rabbit |
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| Mountains of 7 colours. |
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Laguna Verde
When the wind is up it turns green because the high levels of copper and arsenic in the sediment are stirred up. |
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| Dali´s Deset |
Laguna Blanco
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| Laguna Colorado - The Red Lagoon. So beautiful! |
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| Sol de Manana crater. |
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| Thermal Springs |
living the dream you two...keep it coming !
ReplyDeleteWowsers guys! so pretty
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