Salar de Uyuni Day Three!

Posted by Dave and Zephie

On day three we had a bit of a lie in - we only had to get up at 6ish! It was a bit more of an easy day having seen so much the day before! We were all exhausted from long days, early mornings and altitude. Unfortunately Pete was sick in the night from the altitude!

The first place we visited was so beautiful. It was a red lake that gets its colour from the bacteria that live in it and rise to the surface during the day. There were thousands of flamingoes here as well! Here it was still really early so the lake hadn't changed colour yet....





Here it is a bit redder...!





After looking at the lake and aaaall the flamingoes for ages, we went to see some cool rock formations - much cooler than it sounds, honestly!!!


Here is a particularly famous one that is said to look like a tree!





And here's me and Dave posing....









Here is another beautiful lake....





At yet another lake, we stopped to have lunch! This was by far one of the best meals we had on the tour - so yummy! It was veg in a lovely sauce with rice mmmmmm!

Our cook Agustina is here too, look how tiny she is!!!!!!!!!!!! She was lovely :D





After lunch we paid a visit to a semi active volcanoe, which was surrounded by rock that had formed from lava thousands of years ago. The landscape was incredible, you could still see the shape of the lava like the crests of waves...







On the drive to our next destination we got a taste of what the next day would be like...salt salt and more salt...





That night we even got to stay in a salt HOTEL! It was built out of bricks of salt, our beds were made of salt, the tables and chairs were made of salt! You get the idea!


Here I am in our salty bedroom....





Salt dining room....





Salty friends.....





And here is the view of salt that we had from the salt hotel...These were the salt plains that we would be exploring the next day!