I started day 2 off with a run. It was pretty cold but I could see the sun rising over the mountains beyond the salar so that was cool. The stars out here are amazing since it's pretty much as in the middle of nowhere as you can get. You could see the Milky Way and a shooting star about every 5 minutes or so if you were looking in the right place. It gets ridiculously cold at night though, but I had a sleeping bad my host parents let me borrow and the beds have about 5 or 6 thick blankets on them so it's not that bad.
Our first stop of the day was in this rocky area that was created by lava flows from volcanoes. Lots of fun stuff to climb all over and go 'sploring.
This is the first lake we came to. There were flamingos way on the other side.
One of the flamingos came over by all the people for some reason.
Another beautiful lake, more flamingos.
So apparently flamingos aren't allowed here? Or maybe they aren't allowed to fly away? I don't know. This guy in the background doesn't seem to care.
Yeah so this is a really really huge Bolivian flag we're underneath.
Apparently there's about 200 of these lakes and lagoons all around this region.
After a long bumpy ride through the desert we found this: el Arbol de Piedra. You're not allowed to climb on it :(
But you are allowed to climb on everything else!
Oh yeah climbing big rocks and stuff.
But what about the geysers? Laguna Colorado? Laguna Verde? and the pueblo that looks like it came from a Bolivian Lord of the Rings Middle Earth? (Go to Salar de Uyuni: Day 3) and yes I know these aren't in order when you look at the blog because they're in order of when they were posted. I'm just hoping the whole "Day 3" part will inspire all my readers (my mom) to go looking for day 1 first.
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