Salar de Uyuni tour - day 2

We woke up shortly after 7. The room was smelling bad and I got terrible headache and sore throat which was most probably caused by altitude. Luckily the breakfast was delicious ~ we got pancakes, bread, juice, ham & cheese and most importantly tea with coca leaves which helps against altitude issues. Around 9 in the morning we departed from our accommodation and drove to nearby canyon to see different rock formations ~ World Cup, Camel, Anaconda Viewpoint. We stopped also on the way by 2 lagoons to see more wildlife. It was quite exhausting to stop every 10 minutes for pictures so we were very happy when we got to Rocky canyon to do 1 hour long walk to the lake and to see the Alpaka colonies. In the afternoon we arrived to the small town Julaca where they were selling Bolivian unique beers 🍻 they had beer with coca leaves, cactus, quinoa, honey or salt. We decided to try all of them (we were 6 people in the Jeep ~ couple from Luxemburg and girls from Sweden and Finnland). It was really fun, we stopped by quinoa fields, saw huge cactuses and were listening local folklore music. It was fun only until Jean found out that his bag is missing, where passport and car keys were (he left it in the beer place). We had to turn back and lost almost 1 hour 😅 also we were running out of petrol 🤣. We were really lucky and the bag was found and we could also purchase some petrol 😁. We arrived shortly before sunset to our salt hotel right at the beginning of salt flats. It was really cool, everything was made out of salt block and even on floor was salt. We had dinner, talked a lot and went to bed quite early as we had to wake up at 5 to watch sunrise.Lue lisää