Salar de Uyuni

Hi there everybody greatings from 3670 meters of altitude. Report from Uyuni, where we visited the Salar the Uyuni for 3 days. This means travelling around in an old Toyota and stopping at some of the most beautifull and strangest things you will ever encounter. I myself (Berend) suffered the first 2 days from a terrible cold, but still enjoyed the landscape, in between the tears and the sneazing.

There is a lake which is used for the supply of salt and it is increadibly big with just a little bit of water on top of it. It contains hotels, which are completely build from salt. Pretty amazing.


The National Park contains green and red lakes, places that smell a lot like sulphur pits and geysers, complete with thermal baths. Rock formations that have been named the Salvador Dali rocks because... there very strange. Rocks that look like trees or like faces. It is all so strange and beautifull at the same time.



The animals are just funny, the first Llama you see is shot with the camera for 15 times and than the next day you find yourself surrounded by Llamas at a distance of just 3 meters. The same with the flamingos, which you might expect at warm places not at 4800 meters. Still the first 4 we saw were increadible and than at the next lake you see a few hunderds of them. Some white but most of them had the fluorescent pink color we all know them for. Another strange animal you can find here is the rabbit. Hmmm does not sound so strange, but when you see it has a long tail it does look strange. From upclose it really is a cute little missbreed between a rat and a rabbit, but still I guess it would do good on a BBQ.

Sleeping is a whole new experience on its own. Never slept on beds made from stone for instance or having blankets that are half my size and still find a way to sleep under them. Unfortunatly, no pictures about this anymore...

The next stop for us will be Oruro, where according to the people here, the second biggest carnaval in South America is celebrated. Hmm will be my first time ever to celebrate this Roman Catholic invention.... but it will be interesting non the less.