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Salar de Uyuni – Tupiza to Uyuni, Bolivia, Part 3
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 9 March 2012
This is the final part of a three part account of a Salar trip from Tupiza to Uyuni, Bolivia. Check out Part 1 and Part 2 for the full story! Day 3 We get up before dawn to pack as much into the day as possible. As the sun rises, it’s a stunning drive. Every [...]
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Salar de Uyuni – Tupiza to Uyuni, Part 2
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 9 March 2012
This is the second in the three-part account of a Salar trip from Tupiza to Uyuni, Bolivia. See the previous post for how the story began, and stay tuned for Part 3! Day 2 Everyone is feeling optimistic. Surely today couldn’t be as bad as yesterday? We begin to climb ever higher and the roads [...]
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Salar de Uyuni – Tupiza to Uyuni, Bolivia, Part 1
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 9 March 2012
This is a three-part account of a Salar trip from Tupiza to Uyuni in Bolivia. Stay tuned for more! It’s important to do your research before embarking on a tour of Bolivia’s famous Salt Flats. After reading some hair-raising blogs featuring drunk drivers and ancient vehicles, we decide to go for a four-day trip with [...]
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The Best of South America Part 2: Travellers Share Their Tips
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 25 January 2012
To celebrate the launch of our free ebook South America Highlights we asked other travel bloggers to share their favourite places and experiences on the continent. In Part 1 we heard their top tips for Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and Brazil and now in Part 2 we move on to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. For exhilarating [...]
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The backpack diaries – our top ten South American experiences
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 21 December 2011
So this post is a little late – over a year late to be precise – but that’s okay because we still remember every miniscule detail of the trip as if it was yesterday. We’re determined to get back on the blogging horse and we have a few great European posts up our sleeves for [...]
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Daily Travel Snapshot: Tupiza, Bolivia
Blog: WildJunket - 6 August 2011
A street vendor sells oranges in the market of Tupiza, Bolivia. Click to see more photos of Bolivia.
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Salar de Uyuni Bolivia Photo Tour
Blog: Two Backpackers - 6 April 2011
The most popular multi-day tour available for visiting the Uyuni Salt Flats is driving a 4×4 between Tupiza and Uyuni, Bolivia. This photo essay will take you through our 4-day tour beginning in Southwest Bolivia and ending with a sunrise over the Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt flats in the world. Tupiza to Salar [...]
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Salar de Uyuni Bolivia Photo Tour
Blog: Two Backpackers - 6 April 2011
The most popular multi-day tour available for visiting the Uyuni Salt Flats is driving a 4×4 between Tupiza and Uyuni, Bolivia. This photo essay will take you through our 4-day tour beginning in Southwest Bolivia and ending with a sunrise over the Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt flats in the world. Tupiza to Salar [...]
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The Uyuni Salt Flats to Chile Pt. 1
Blog: The Road Chose Me - 50,000kms of ebb and flow - 18 November 2010
Preparing to leave Uyuni I feel like we’re setting out on a mission to mars. We being myself, Warren and Sara in their Toyota 4Runner and Rob riding a Harley Davidson. No, that’s not a typo. Harley Davidson. Street tires. 10cm of ground clearance. I ask all the guides I can find exactly which tracks [...]
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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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What’s flat and salty and dusty all over? San Pedro de Atacama to Uyuni, Bolivia
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 30 July 2010
For a while it seemed as if it would never happen. It felt like we were doomed to spend eternity bumping and crawling across a barren wasteland, forced by protruding rocks and roaming livestock to take the longest route across the desert plain. Then just as we started to give up hope there it was, [...]
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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 - Part 2
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 26 May 2010
Day two started with a half past six breakfast, which oddly consisted of tea and stodgy cake, then back on the road by seven, leaving the salt flat and salt hotel behind us. We headed for the Bolivian desert and there were plenty of miles to cover so we stopped at the next village along for some supplies - in the form of more beer. Drinking a few cans while travelling in the 4x4 was an inspired idea. I was glad to see our driver didn't partake despite Brice offering!
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The Bolivian Salt Flats - Part 1
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 25 May 2010
We set off mid-morning, once our Land Cruiser had been loaded up with luggage, fuel, food, plus the four French people that would make up our group. A standard three day tour will take six people and they manage to fill the cars, no doubt by tempting lone travellers with rock bottom prices at the last minute. I'd say there is something to be said for standing on the street at five to eleven looking disinterested. Its bound to get you a great bargain!
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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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Uyuni – The Most Basic Tourist-Town Ever
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 24 May 2010
And it’s not just me that thinks that, you know. Even one guidebook – and you know what guidebooks are like when it comes to getting in there with the locals and being part of the culture and all – when talking about places to eat in Uyuni, actually said, “Avoid the market – this [...]
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Bolivia's second 'Death Road'?
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 24 May 2010
I couldn't tell you exactly how many miles we have travelled since arriving in Mexico city last October. But I'm fairly sure that I can now tell you where the most difficult of those miles occurred. After spending time in the plush and serene surroundings of Tarija, the bus ride north towards Uyuni served as a reminder that Bolivia is amongst the poorest of the countries we've visited.
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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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a long way for a salt shaker Food – checkToilet paper –...
Blog: DO EPIC SHIT - 8 May 2010
a long way for a salt shaker Food – checkToilet paper – checkWater – checkIpod – charged “Let the 37 hour ass numb begin,” I said.
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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 [...]
