Salar de Uyuni

Tupiza is a very touristy place. Paved roads, karaoke bars and italian restaurants. From here I booked a tour to Uyuni, 4 days on the road in a 4x4 off-road jeep. It cost about 100 euro, but in return you get the most beautiful landscape of Bolivia, in a sort of private tour.

The first day, leaving at 9, brings you through mountains and past crazy looking rocks. You sleep that night in a real Bolivian village in the middle of nowhere. A cold night further, the tours brings you to the highest point. Just below 5000m, 4885m. A lot of people have problems with the altitude, headache, breading problems and just feeling sick. Lucky my I didn´t notice a thing. Which is a good thing, because Bolivian cities are high above sea level. It gets better every day, because hot springs and gysers are on the schedule for day three. Swimming on 4000m in hot water, a great experience.

Day 4 is by far the best and the most interesting. Salar de Uyuni. The biggest salt lake (flat) in the world. A long time ago it used to be a lake, but it dried and all there´s left is a salt flat. 12 thousand sqaure kilometers. It is a weird natural phenomenom. As far as the eye can see, all the way around you is white salt. It looks like snow, but it´s not cold. We drove to an island on the salt flat, where cacti and trees grew. But there is no more water surrounding it. Because there are about a 100 people taking the tour daily and the island is a stub, it was actually crowded. So we took 4 stones, made a goal and played football on a salt flat. If you score the balls keeps rolling, because there is basically nothing to stop it.

Last stop was a train cementry, with beautiful old steam trains rusting for eternity. The pictures are nice.

I stayed one night in Uyuni and left to Potosi.

Any plans to go to la Paz? Would be a great experience to take a look at the 'road of death' (North yungas road).. google it.

The world most dangerous road, you mean. Yup, going to do that.