Uyuni trip day 1

Long drive through multicoloured and llama filled mountain roads to Bolivia's altiplano. Had lunch at the scruffy and remote mining town where Butch Cassidy & the Sundance kid died, having robbed the mine's payroll and been hunted down by Bolivian police.
Then finally reached the Salar de Uyuni, the worlds biggest salt flat. So big it's visible from space. 11,000sqkm vast expanse of white, flat salt in distinctive hexagonal shapes. Incredible, perspective sight. We drove for miles and miles over flat whiteness. Eventually reached Incahausi Island marooned in the middle. Lots of cacti and almost as many people. Strange to be in the middle of nothingness, with loads of tourists. But nevertheless, very spectacular.Læs mere