Uyuni, Bolivia to San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, three days crossing the most amazing scenery I've seen so far in South America. The Salt Flats in particular amazed me, the hexagonal patterns the salt makes are beautiful. Also the first time I've stayed in a hotel made of salt bricks and slept on a bed made of salt, thankfully with a mattress on top!
Fun in the Salvador Dali Desert
Green lagoon wasn't so green!
Getting up at 5:30am for sunrise was worth it just for the length of our shadows.
Sunrise
Sunset
Wandering around an active volcano!
Red Lagoon
The barreness of the driest desert in the world amazed me, 0.5mm of rain each year.
A target tame llama. I've decided llama meat is just as yummy as alpaca meat.
A four year old toilet attendant, making sure we all paid our two Bolivanios while her Mum worked in the shop.
Cutting salt bricks, only indigenous people are allowed to do this. They sell for about a US$1 each.
Salt Flats
An island in the midst of all the salt. The cacti grow 1cm per year, so they're protected.
I was amazed by the patterns in the salt, almost always hexagons (something to do with the molecular structure of salt).
Fighting with a dinosaur! Perspective is very writer in such a flat place.
The salt hotel we ate lunch at, like the one we stayed at that night, even the table and stools were made from salt.
Fun in the Salvador Dali Desert
Green lagoon wasn't so green!
Getting up at 5:30am for sunrise was worth it just for the length of our shadows.
Sunrise
Sunset
Wandering around an active volcano!
Red Lagoon
The barreness of the driest desert in the world amazed me, 0.5mm of rain each year.
A target tame llama. I've decided llama meat is just as yummy as alpaca meat.
A four year old toilet attendant, making sure we all paid our two Bolivanios while her Mum worked in the shop.
Cutting salt bricks, only indigenous people are allowed to do this. They sell for about a US$1 each.
Salt Flats
An island in the midst of all the salt. The cacti grow 1cm per year, so they're protected.
I was amazed by the patterns in the salt, almost always hexagons (something to do with the molecular structure of salt).
Fighting with a dinosaur! Perspective is very writer in such a flat place.
The salt hotel we ate lunch at, like the one we stayed at that night, even the table and stools were made from salt.
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