Uyuni
Well after quite a journey we arrived in Uyuni - it was raining and the whole place seemed like a half built ghost town. Fortunately our hostel was spot on and there was no need to leave it as there was an American run Pizzeria attached.
We were woken up early with the Bolivian national anthem which is played every morning - if you are out in the street you must stand still and remove your hat!!
We did a full day tour of the salt flats which were absolutely incredible.
The first stop was a strange one - it was a train graveyard. There were loads of British and US trains just left there to rot. The most interesting one (for you train spotters) was an engine that was actually robbed by Butch Casidy and The Sundance Kid.
Next stop was a salt factory the salt is farmed, dried and mixed with iodine by the local workers. The conditions in the factory were bad and we saw a nine year old girl working with her father to bag the salt.
We drove onto the flats (which are huge!) for the first photo stop. We then drove further out to a hotel made entirely out of salt. Then on for another hour and a half right accross the flats to Fish Island where we stopped for lunch - a llama bbq. LLama actually tastes nice - a bit like pork I thought. Fish Island was covered in Cacti and we climbed to the top for an even better view of the flats. After lunch we travelled back accross the flats for even more photo stops - the landscape was just incredible.
On the way back we randomly stopped at some strange caves. The girls got a shock when we went inside one to be confronted by loads of mummies. Finally we got back to the hotel and chilled out before another Pizza from Minuteman!
We were woken up early with the Bolivian national anthem which is played every morning - if you are out in the street you must stand still and remove your hat!!
We did a full day tour of the salt flats which were absolutely incredible.
The first stop was a strange one - it was a train graveyard. There were loads of British and US trains just left there to rot. The most interesting one (for you train spotters) was an engine that was actually robbed by Butch Casidy and The Sundance Kid.
Next stop was a salt factory the salt is farmed, dried and mixed with iodine by the local workers. The conditions in the factory were bad and we saw a nine year old girl working with her father to bag the salt.
We drove onto the flats (which are huge!) for the first photo stop. We then drove further out to a hotel made entirely out of salt. Then on for another hour and a half right accross the flats to Fish Island where we stopped for lunch - a llama bbq. LLama actually tastes nice - a bit like pork I thought. Fish Island was covered in Cacti and we climbed to the top for an even better view of the flats. After lunch we travelled back accross the flats for even more photo stops - the landscape was just incredible.
On the way back we randomly stopped at some strange caves. The girls got a shock when we went inside one to be confronted by loads of mummies. Finally we got back to the hotel and chilled out before another Pizza from Minuteman!
posted by Phil at 10:24 PM
3 Comments:
Hi,
Very impressive photos. You look like you are having a great time - lucky man - we too, have been living the high life with a visit to "Cheeky Monkeys" along with a hundred loud 0-10 year olds.
Chelsea keeps me updated on all her Mum does and how many of your possessions Jen has loaned out - only joking!
Hiya
You look like your enjoying yourself, the photo of the explosive's looks cool!
take care and enjoyself.
Siobhan
(Jen's sister)
..and I always thought Llama tasted like chicken!
You appear to be having a wonderful time if the photos are anything to go by.
Jen's keeping us 'Southern Softies' updated on your wherabouts and goings on......pretty impressed you've not managed to fall foul of any local law enforcers..........yet!!
Keep the posts coming and have fun!
Liz -(Jen's sis-in-law - family member No 104038759989............. I'm not joking!!))
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