Jeep tour: day four - salt flats

We were awoken at 5:30am but somehow took an hour to leave due to Anna feeling terrible and there only being one working toilet in the hostel. We've noticed Bolivians don't seem to need to go as often as us!

We left in darkness and were soon onto the salt flats - the largest in the world at 11,000m2 and 8m deep. We bombed along to try and make up time and stopped to watch a beautiful sunrise.

Then we headed to an island full of cacti and I managed to get up and walk round very slowly - 20 paces and rest, 20 paces and rest. The island is one of 27 on the flats, all of which used to be under a lake many moons ago so much of it is made of coral.

After our slow meander we had breakfast. We were feeling very weak from the lack of food and managed some dry frosties and sugary tea which perked us up a bit.

Next it was time for fotos locos - funny perspectives shots that are harder to accomplish than we'd expected! We stayed for hours, possibly as they were taking apart one of the Jeeps to fix it.

After a brief stop to see another salt hotel (not very exciting) we went for lunch where I managed a bit of potato and carrot. Anna had perked up and ate a fair bit.

Our final stop was a train cemetery full of rusty steam trains you could climb all over. More fun than I expected but I didn't have the energy for any clambering.

We bid our farewells to the group who were heading elsewhere and got dropped off at a hostel - Hostel Avenida (140B). Anna was suddenly in a lot of pain, probably due to eating too much at lunch / overexertion with our photos) so I gave her drugs and she passed out happily.

After a hot shower I clambered into bed at about 5pm and didn't get out until 3pm the next day!! Much needed rest!!Read more