Alright. Salar de Uyuni. It's the largest salt desert in the world, and it's a pretty cool place to go to. Really though, you can go to a resort on a beach somewhere in the U.S. anytime, but parts of this trip make you feel like you're on another planet. Now the last few hours of violent shaking on the bus ride to Uyuni from La Paz from around 3:00 until 7:00 in the morning are likely to be some of the most miserable of your life, but the trip is way more than worth it when you get there. We did a three day, two night tour with our own driver and another group of three travelers. We were a bit nervous about who we'd be cooped up in a jeep with while traveling from location to location, let alone sharing rooms with for two nights, but we probably couldn't have had a better group. After eating breakfast in Uyuni we learned that we were traveling with three guys we had met at the bus terminal in La Paz. They were Ellis and Phil, two guys from Montreal, and Brad from Australia. They were hilarious and we all had a great time.
So the trip starts at a train cemetery near Uyuni, which seemed a little random but it was actually pretty fun. They have turned parts of the trains into sculptures, swings, and see-saws and it's all pretty fun to climb all over.
On the swing.
Newton's equation for gravitational force between two objects. There were equations written all over one of the trains. Apparently we weren't the first engineers to visit.
All three of us. I don't know why certain pictures just refuse to turn the right way. I have this one horizontal in my files. Sorry. Just turn your head I guess.
Salar de Uyuni. Salt everywhere. It's weird because you can't stop treating it like it's snow when you're out there.
Some mounds of salt they mined.
Ok this was lots of fun. You can take all sorts of goofy perspective photos here. Just google image Salar de Uyuni and you'll see how cool some of them can look.
This is what happens when Caroline gets angry.
On top of Isla Incahuasi, or the Isla Pescada, or the Fish Island. When this whole place was a sea a long long long long long long long time ago, this was a legit island in the middle of it all.
During the rainy season, the whole salar is like a giant mirror. This is some leftover flooding near the edge of the salar.
I couldn't just not go out there.
The hostel we stayed at for the first night was made almost entirely out of salt.
Ok now go to Salar de Uyuni: Day 2
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