Over the border

Took a bus to the border town of La Quiaca Trundled our bags several blocks to the immigration, crossed over to Villazon in Bolivia & took a bus to Tupiza. Our first proper taste of Bolivia. Our roomLæs mere
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 theLæs mere
More Uyuni day 1: Salt & cacti

Here are the Incahausi Island cacti shots.
We stayed that night in a salt hotel - a hotel made entirely of salt!
Uyuni tour day 2: FindFlamingos.com

Drove away from the Salar past fields of quinoa - it grows well here as it's high and dry (over 4000m).
Passed a smoking volcano and some petrified lava.
Found flamingos - lot & lots of them on theLæs mere
Www.findflamingos.com

Flamingos! Or as they are known here, flamencos.
Uyuni tour day 3

Passed the Arbol de Peidra - The rock tree. Then some geothermal geezers and wonderfully hellish and stinky bubbling mud pools. Clare braved her feet in a hot spring stream.
Uyuni day 3: to the Chilean border

Final glorious volcano & green lake - no flamingos on this one due to the arsenic. Then to our final night in a hostel attached to the park rangers office. The most remote place I think we've everLæs mere