• The disaster fixed

    October 9, 2017 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    As we continued digging and putting more stones, nothing seemed to work. The quicksand was just pasted all over the wheels and would get plastered over the stones and roots.
    At that moment one vehicle came by to the cave. We went to ask for help. All the passengers were very helpful and came to help in digging further and collect more stones. Pretty soon we had ditches about as deep as the wheels inside the sand and piles of stones around every wheel.
    Still, the vehicle didn't move a single cm either front or back. The wheels would start spinning and nothing would happen.
    Then came 3 more vehicles. The guide in one of them saw us and came straight to us explaining that he's been in similar situations on the salar and putting stones etc wouldn't work because of the quicksand. He suggested digging till below the wheels, raising tgem on the jack and put salt crystals below. That would provide friction and the salt would dry up the water from the quicksand.
    That sounded like a sensible advice so Hristo started to raise one of the wheels and the whole gang had collected a huge mound of salt crystals in no time.
    At that point in time, we saw one of the vehicle come over to near where our vehicle was.
    The driver was also an experienced person from the area. He told that what we were trying would take hours. He offered to pull our vehicle using his vehicles superior power and off road tyres. This we readily accepted.
    We connected the vehicles with the tow roap and in one pull our vehicle was out, to our immense relief.
    We were freeeeeee...
    Our guardian angel had dug us out of our troubles again 😁
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