Salt Flats

My three day/tour night salt flats tour. I booked this through Eco Tours for £170. It was a pretty good price. I learned that it basically doesn't matter who you book through. They're all more or less the same.
I had a very lucky, small world moment. I ended up being on the same tour and in the same car as Kate, who I know from home. We had been in contact during our trips but it was by complete chance we ended up together.
Day one of the tour brought me into Bolivia. We had six people in our 4x4. We were very lucky to have Kate and Gina along with Femka and Marlise who we had met on a previous tour. I saw plenty of lagoons. One of them was pink and had thousands of flamingos. We stayed in a very basic guest house and had a pretty poor dinner. It was bed early with some mild altitude sickness. We did however have some very funny chats in what felt like a big sleepover. It was very cute!
Day two brought us through interesting rock landscape. We saw some geysers. Turns out they smell really really bad. We stayed in nicer accommodation but the food was still pretty sad.
Day three. Finally got to the salt flats. We had to get up at 4:30 to make sunrise. Unfortunately it was pretty cloudy but it was nice all the same. The salt flats were stunning and thankfully I got the desired mirror effect. When I was originally planning my route I wanted to be here during the rainy season purely for this reason. After the tour we were dropped off in Uyuni where we caught an overnight bus to La Paz. We said our good-byes to Femka and Marlise and continued on as a four.Leggi altro