Salar de Uyuni tour - part II

Our route on the second day of the tour took us from the rear of Salar de Uyuni through the Eduardo Avaroa Park and into the Siloli Desert. We had a toral of 6 stops along the way, so a loooot of relaxing driving! 😴
The first stop was after passing through another, smaller Salt flat named Salar Chiguana, where we visited the railway tracks that lead through the whole outback and into Chile - it is still in use today for transport of salt. The second stop lead us to the Ollague volcano viewpoint to see - you guessed it - the Ollague volcano 😉, which is dormant but has a small opening on top that still releases smoke. Also, the viewpoint is surrounded by big orange and wave-like stone structures that are actually cold lava - really cool! But almost the best thing about this second stop was the little ski-hut (you cannot describe it any better) blasting hits from the 80‘s and 90‘s and serving the most delicious lama sausage sandwiches 🤤
With fresh strength we continued our journey to see the altiplanic lagoons in the Eduardo Avaroa Park and stopped first for a wild ostrich (😍) and afterwards at the lagunas Cañapa and Hedionda (which means the stinky lagoon - fitting name, let me tell you!), where we had lunch and a rest. Both lagunas were super georgeous and PACKED with flamingos 🦩😍
On the way to our next stop, the white laguna (or so I believe to remeber its name - the description would fit though 🤷🏻‍♀️), we encountered our next highlight: An supposed-to-be-wild-but-obviously-regurarily-fed-by-stupid-tourists (😒) andean fox! A gorgeous thing 😍
Further into the Siloli desert we stopped at the ‚stone tree‘ - nice but no highlight - and a Vizcocha-observing spot/obviously feeding place (an andean rodent which belongs to the Chinchilla family and looks like a weird mixture of rabbit and squirrel) where we were a tad disgusted by the tameness (and fatness) of the Vizcochas… But the lava stones, which are the actual attraction at this stop, and the green of the desert moss patches were still lovely to see! The last highlight of the day was the Laguna Colorado, which is a gorgeous red-blue-white lagoon again packed with flamingos. Supergorgeous!! After this last lovely stop we managed to get to our habitation for the night rather early and even got a decent dinner AND some beers, pingpong and pool table action in a „bar“ nearby, enjoying the company of our group ❤️ After a short stargazing excursion in the freezing cold of the desert (hence short 🥶) we all headed to bed early for an early start the next morning.Read more