Night at Tahua

After sunset, it became dark very quickly. It was a bit of a challenge driving on the open salt plains with no roads or signs to guide. We also didn't have any bookings for the night since the places here are not booking.com. Its mostly locals letting out rooms in their houses.
The only place we found marked on maps.me (our gos app) was in Tahua on the edge of the Salar to the North near the Tunupa volcano.
Trying to reach Tahua, we almost reached there before our path was blocked by a wall. We took a detour and the path this time was blocked by a lake that I managed to see just in time.
Eventually, we found an alternate route and reached Tahua. We went to the hotel marked on the map but found that it was fully booked. The receptionist was very helpful and with some broken Spanish on our side and help from google translate, we understood there was a professor letting out rooms in the village. We managed to find the place based on her rough instructions and got ourselves a place to sleep for a total of 60 b$. No running water and shared external toilets.Read more