This is really a beautiful nature, or geology, or world. It is actually indescribable, so I try to withhold myself. Making pictures of this actually is almost impossible also, but I tried. Look at them. From Uyuni we went to visit the biggest salt planes in the world (12000 km2). If you are standing there than that is the world, completely unrealistic, or should I say surrealistic??
These salt planes were, once, connected to the Pacific and by tectonic movements changed into (salty) lakes, which dried out.
Further we visited a train cemetery (almost all trains of Bolivia are demolished here). We slept in a hotel completely built from salt bricks, salt as a carpet, a salt bed, etc. There we enjoyed a nice New Years Eve (2 times, European and Bolivian time). We saw a lot of lagoons (in all colors, green, blue, red, white,…), with a lot of flamingos. We saw geysers (very active) and volcanoes. Many ages ago this must have been a big inferno with volcano eruptions all around. We saw deserts (one called: deserte de Dali because of its surrealistic view). We saw erosion (of all kinds) and we swam in hot pools (volcanic origin).
The trip was 500 km to the south (about to the Chili-border), and back of course, in two 4x4 cars, it were only unpaved roads and sometimes we doubted if there was a road).
Back in Uyuni I had hoped to get a ticket for a luxurious bus (11 hours during the night is a challenge for my neck), but unfortunately the 2nd of January is the same mess as before Xmas. So I got a rattling thing that is called ´flota´ or bus. Also the road to Oruro is unpaved, so my night was not too well (the last day of the salar-trip we woke up at 4:00). In La Paz, at last, I could of course take a good shower and a breakfast and then I am going to be human again.
These salt planes were, once, connected to the Pacific and by tectonic movements changed into (salty) lakes, which dried out.
Further we visited a train cemetery (almost all trains of Bolivia are demolished here). We slept in a hotel completely built from salt bricks, salt as a carpet, a salt bed, etc. There we enjoyed a nice New Years Eve (2 times, European and Bolivian time). We saw a lot of lagoons (in all colors, green, blue, red, white,…), with a lot of flamingos. We saw geysers (very active) and volcanoes. Many ages ago this must have been a big inferno with volcano eruptions all around. We saw deserts (one called: deserte de Dali because of its surrealistic view). We saw erosion (of all kinds) and we swam in hot pools (volcanic origin).
The trip was 500 km to the south (about to the Chili-border), and back of course, in two 4x4 cars, it were only unpaved roads and sometimes we doubted if there was a road).
Back in Uyuni I had hoped to get a ticket for a luxurious bus (11 hours during the night is a challenge for my neck), but unfortunately the 2nd of January is the same mess as before Xmas. So I got a rattling thing that is called ´flota´ or bus. Also the road to Oruro is unpaved, so my night was not too well (the last day of the salar-trip we woke up at 4:00). In La Paz, at last, I could of course take a good shower and a breakfast and then I am going to be human again.
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