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An Out-Of-This-World Experience – The Uyuni Salt Flats
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 1 November 2010
Doing the salt flats tour is the easiest way to have an ‘other worldly’ experience without going mad or joining NASA. From the very beginning of the trip I was transported away from any landscape I have known. Even the wildlife is completely alien: animals, like the Vicuñas and Llamas, that apparently live on dust [...]
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The Salt Flats From San Pedro de Atacama– Working Out the Details…
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 29 October 2010
The first stage of Salt Flats tour is finding a decent tour operator and booking. We were lucky enough to have teamed up with an Australian couple (Ryan & Brenna) who had heard about a decent company. The companies all offer the same accommodation and stop at the same beauty spots. For us the critical [...]
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Bolivia’s Salt Flats: One Wild Ride The Wrong Way Round (Part 2)
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 26 October 2010
Last week we recounted Days 1 and 2 of our 1000km jeep tour from Tupiza to Uyuni around Bolivia’s wild Southwest Circuit. Now we continue with Days 3 & 4 when we finally reach the famous Salar de Uyuni: the world’s largest salt flats.
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Bolivia’s Salt Flats: One Wild Ride The Wrong Way Round (Part 1)
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 21 October 2010
We spent four days in a jeep driving through the wildest, most remote and stunning scenery we have ever experienced. We passed blue, green, red and white mineral lakes; multi-hued volcanoes; vast desert; llamas, vicuñas, and flamingos; and of course the famous, immense Salar de Uyuni: the world’s largest salt flats.
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Snapshots: 玻利維亞 Bolivia
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 3 June 2010
Endless salt flats of Uyuni Extracting salt from the world's largest salt flat Salt cones, Uyuni salt flats Salt cones and 4x4, Uyuni salt flats Light streaks burn the horizon at dawn, Uyuni salt flats Thermal waters in Bolivian Andes Vicuñas grazing before relentless mountains Bolivian Dreamscapes More Snapshots...
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The Bolivian Salt Flats – Possibly One Of The Most Amazing Places On Earth
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 25 May 2010
This was why I came to Bolivia. It was the sudden fire of enthusiasm in my brother’s eyes when I mentioned which part of the world I was visiting, and the shock and horror when I mentioned that I’d never heard of the salt flats. Anything that produces that reaction, I decided, was worth seeing. [...]
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Day 89: White Desert, Lost Necklace, and a Broken Camera..
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 13 May 2010
Salt.. Salt.. nothing but blindingly white salt! Waiting for 2:50am train to Tupiza, our last Bolivian stop. There have been many moments like these where we find ourselves stuck in awkward hours… can’t wait to rest in a decent place – the last time we felt really comfortable and clean was in Cusco, almost 2 weeks ago. Backpacking Bolivia can be tough… Who shrunk my wife?? ...I just wanted
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Bolivian Wonderland
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 4 May 2010
4/23/10: Southwest Circuit, Bolivia I’m back! You didn’t think I could post about the Salar without showing our array of crazy depth perception shots, did you? For those of you who don’t know much about the Salar (pretty much all of you I’m guessing since it’s never in the news), the thing to do there [...]
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Take This Opinion with a Trillion Grains of Salt
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 3 May 2010
4/23/10: Southwest Circuit, Bolivia The sun hadn’t come up yet and we were cruising along at over 60 mph. Jesus flicked off his headlights and just drove. We couldn’t see a thing in front of us, but it didn’t matter – we were traveling over 4,600 square miles of nothing but flat salt. There wasn’t [...]
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The Tears of My Loneliness Produced This Salt
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 2 May 2010
4/22/10: Southwest Circuit, Bolivia I’m typing this while sitting on a bench made of salt. The floor is covered in salt and there is a salt flamingo on the wall opposite me. There is a salt chandelier on the ceiling. All the other trucks that had been hanging out with us along our stops today [...]
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Even Einstein Didn’t Complete School
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 1 May 2010
4/21/10: Southwest Circuit, Bolivia Whoever invented Bolivia must have failed out of Countries 101 in elementary school. “Class, making countries is so easy a caveman could do it. This is especially good for you all considering you are cavemen. There is a simple checklist to follow: Lakes must be blue Mountains must be gray Rocks [...]
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Sometimes You Just Feel Lucky
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 30 April 2010
4/20/10: Southwest Circuit, Bolivia We arrived in Tupiza yesterday with one goal: to book a tour to the salt flats. To you this may seem a simple enough task, but I assure you that it wasn’t. The altitude (2,950 meters above sea level) left me wheezing and gasping for air after the tiniest bit of [...]
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Photo silliness on the Salar de Uyuni
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 19 October 2009
Let’s face it, spectacular as its landscapes are, one of the main reason every backapcker wants to go to the Salar de Uyuni is to take lots of silly photos and videos. I had thought that all those trick shots would be tiresome to set up and take, but it turned out to be some [...]
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The Salar de Uyuni
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 18 October 2009
If there was one place more than any other that I was excited about visiting in South America, it was the Salar de Uyuni. Before I traveled, I read countless blog posts and saw hundreds of amazing photos about the place, and I couldn’t wait to see it for myself. After a slightly frustrating evening in [...]
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