Salar de Uyuni (Salt Plains) Day Two!

Posted by Dave and Zephie

The next day we had to get up at stupid o'clock (about 4-5ish am) in order to get our bags packed onto the jeep and set off again. We went to a place they call the mini Macchu Picchu but to be honest we were so sleepy and it was still dark that we couldn't really make anything out!

Here is one of the lakes we visited, that was home to looooads of beautiful flamingoes!






Here is our convoy of jeeps. We all travelled around together in case someone broke down, as they do quite commonly apparently. Although this didn't stop one car getting stuck out in the middle of the desert all night...eeeshk! Nothing happened with us though, yay!




After this we went to some hot springs. The water was pumped into an artificial pool, which was set, again, in the middle of nowhere!!! Here is Dave with our Kiwi buddies, Phillipa, Jamie and Pete.




Here we are at a lake that was bright blue in colour because of all the minerals in it... It was so pretty and incredibly windy!!!!



The region we was previously highly volcanic, so we saw both dead and semi-active volcanoes. We also got to see the gaseis - or sulphuric gases coming out of the earth from holes hundreds of metres deep. It was very smelly, but really cool! At this point we were well over 5,000 metres above sea level! It is so strange being so high up as even the shortest walk leaves you out of breath....not so good when you're trying to hold your breath from the farty smells....