Salar de Uyuni and the way to Sucre
This is me with Lama next to the Salt hotel. As the name suggests, the hotel is entirely made of salt - even the beds!We spent the last night of our tour on the edge of the Salar de Uyuni (also sleeping in beds made of salt blocks!) back down at 3650m to be able to start the next day with a sunrise in the middle of the Salar. What an amazing experience!
Salt flats as far as your eye can see and an almost eerie silence. No animals, no voices, no wind. Absolute tranquillity! So worth getting up at 5 am to avoid the crowds of tourists! The salt flats in Uyuni are the biggest in the world with 12,ooo square km! Can you imagine¿ It is between 2 and 20m think and has up to 120 m salt water below as well as a few islands formed by calcarous rocks and coral remains and marine shells.
We went to the Incahuasi Island which is covered in cacti and offers spectacular views across the blinding white surface. Very impressive!
Like all other Gringos we also spent a few hours trying to take very silly photographs. The white background and absence of horizon offers endless possibilities! Apparently, I can now kiss Craigo´s a**... 
Oh my... he can be such a handful!!!
From Uyuni all five of us then braced the busride to Sucre which is an absolute nightmare. We certainly miss the comfortable Argentinian buses now!
We were unfortunate enough to sit in the back row which (I wonder why) were the only seats available. The bus goes through lots and lots of potholes and bumps and full speed which means the people sitting on top of the back wheels jump up to the ceiling whenever they doze off and are at rist of breaking their skulls. Dear me! What a trip! And then we finally arrive in Potosi which is only 3 hours from Sucre and the bus stops in the middle of the road for 4 hours. We were sitting in the freezing cold bus without toilet and had to wait for the new driver... Very interesting! At 6 am the trip finally continues and we arrived in sunny and wonderful Sucre! What a relief!
Craig and I have managed to find a private Spanish teacher and are staying with the family that own the language school. All of that for incredibly little money.
The family we stay with (a very nice Dutch-Bolivian connection with two little kids) are just in the process of moving into their new home. We are the first people to stay there, our room is the only one with dry paint and some furniture in it. It is a lovely house with a big courtyard full of plants and flowers. Very civilised. The showers hardly ever work and the electricity goes off frequently but hopefully they will sort this all out once they move in themselves over the weekend!
Oh my... he can be such a handful!!!From Uyuni all five of us then braced the busride to Sucre which is an absolute nightmare. We certainly miss the comfortable Argentinian buses now!
We were unfortunate enough to sit in the back row which (I wonder why) were the only seats available. The bus goes through lots and lots of potholes and bumps and full speed which means the people sitting on top of the back wheels jump up to the ceiling whenever they doze off and are at rist of breaking their skulls. Dear me! What a trip! And then we finally arrive in Potosi which is only 3 hours from Sucre and the bus stops in the middle of the road for 4 hours. We were sitting in the freezing cold bus without toilet and had to wait for the new driver... Very interesting! At 6 am the trip finally continues and we arrived in sunny and wonderful Sucre! What a relief!
Craig and I have managed to find a private Spanish teacher and are staying with the family that own the language school. All of that for incredibly little money.
The family we stay with (a very nice Dutch-Bolivian connection with two little kids) are just in the process of moving into their new home. We are the first people to stay there, our room is the only one with dry paint and some furniture in it. It is a lovely house with a big courtyard full of plants and flowers. Very civilised. The showers hardly ever work and the electricity goes off frequently but hopefully they will sort this all out once they move in themselves over the weekend!
posted by Tanja @ 8:28 am
1 Comments:
Oh guys! We love your blog! It seems you've chosen exactly the right way to do it - explore a continent over a long period rather than hopping on-off continents. What a great experience.
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