Salar de Uyuni tour - part III

On the last day of our trip we git up early to catch the sunrise over the volcanic geysirs called ‚Sol de la Mañana‘ - the colours of the sunrise just matched perfectly with the warm colours of the volcanic landscapes and was magical (even though very stinky)! Seeing geysirs was just another awesome first-ever on our tour through the Bolivian outback 😍 Some more driving and we arrived at the Polques Hot Springs, which really deserve their name with a water temperature of about 37 degrees (in very stark contrast to the air temperatures which we guess had been a good bit below 10 degrees that morning 😅). What a relaxing way to enioy the beautiful view on another beautiful laguna (even without flamingos this time), we were very intrigued to just stay a little longer… fortunately though, we did not, as we would have had to have skipped the next top attraction of our short last day: the Salvador Dali Desert. Alina fell in love with this place right away and swears to that day to come back to explore the place in more detail (and not just from the parking lot 😉). The beautiful sand dunes with the stone formations which gave the desert its name (as it looks like a Salvador Dali painting) and - especially - the one-of-a-kind marble mountain range on the other side of the desert view point: rarely have we seen such beauty!! And we really hated to leave, but time got short for us three who headed to Chile directly, so we had to say goodbye too soon 🥹 and heading to the very last stop: the Laguna verde, which is called ‚green lagoon‘ due to an algae species usually inhabiting the lake, but seems like nobody was at home during our visit 🤷🏻‍♀️ So not a very satisfying last stop, but at least we got a superduper last group picture from our crew before we split up and three of us headed to the Chilean border. At the border, once the waiting for the other tourist buses was done (bringing fresh food such as veggies and meat into Chile is strictly forbidden, and some not very clever people tried to get through the luggage scanner with bags full of sausages 🤦🏻‍♀️), everything went smooth for us and we arrived safe and sound in country number 10: Chile! 🇨🇱Läs mer