Uyuni - Day 1

Uyuni Salt Flats tour with Tupiza Tours. Left Tupiza at 8am in old Toyota Land Cruiser that struggled up the crazy dirt road, winding up to max 4900m altitude. Cramped and not super comfy, but I loved just looking out of the window. Driver/Guide Gerry only Spanish. 4 others in my group: couple from France, mid 20s they just finished medicine studies. And couple from Australia/Scotland. All nice and friendly, but I felt a bit 5th wheel sometimes!
Tour was basically driving all day through these bizarre landscapes and stopping at interesting poiunts, miradors, lakes etc.

- Landscape barren and desert 🏜️ windy and dusty, but beautiful.
- lunch at a village
- Ciudad del encanto cool pillar like rock formations, just made of compact sand.
- small and uncomfy driving along the bumpy road in the middle of nowhere
- saw llamas, pequaci?, and big bird like and emu (name?)
- ruins of colonial Spanish town San Antonio del Nuevo Mundo. From 1604 they enslaved the Quechua natives and made them mine silver. Then built the town to house more slaves and planned to bring them from Africa. Went a few meters down into an old mine shaft, super sketchy and creepy
- highest point of the road 4900m!
- stayed in basic concrete house with some beds. Played cambio (card game) with the group.Read more