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Trip Start
May 18, 2006
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Trip End
Aug 15, 2006
Uyuni, Bolivia
Monday, May 29, 2006
Signed up for a tour of Uyuni's famous salt flats. Boarded a Land Rover with 3 Brits and an Isreali. All cool people, making it a fun trip. Also, our guide and vehicle sucked, that gave us more to joke about. The flat, or Salar de Uyuni was surreal. An expanse of white reaching not quite as far as the eye can see, but pretty darn far. Took the optical illusion photos that EVERYBODY makes when their there then continued on for two days to visit mountain, lagoons and hot springs. Hesitant to enter the springs as we figured we'd freeze upon exiting, considering it was so darn cold there, but it wasn't as bad as we thought and we were happy we did it.
Land Rover broke down on the way back. Our group broke up as we got rides wherever there was space in other vehicles.
Back in Uyuni, had pizza at the famous Minuteman, owned by an American ex-pat from New England.
Next stop, Tupiza, by train.
