Uyuni

We headed towards the salt flats today and the town of Uyuni. At noon we left Potosi and also the only tarmac road we would see for a few days! We bumped along alot of rocky roads with no air conditioning on the bus, and with one of our group feeling ill, we had quite a few stops (I'm glad my travel bands are really working!)

The bus covered a lot of ground and we passed through a lot of varied landscapes, including people washing their clothes in rivers and a number of herds of Llamas.

After about 6 hours, the bus went through the penultimate village which seemed to be deserted, there were a lot of ruins and some buildings built into the rocks encasing the town, but the fences and shrines were made out of car parts. All interesting to see and I'd love to know whether they were into using everything available, but it was strange.

We finally arrived into Uyuni and on first sight it was un-impressive. The outskirts seemed to be the land fill, only it was full of shredded plastic bags clinging to the shrubs from people dumping their waste. Not the prettiest of sights, but this place seems to be very quirky with our hotel being beside the army barracks.

Roll on our 3 day tour of the Salt Flats.


(one of the many monuments in Uyuni).