Altiplano (San Pedro to Ulyuni, Bolivia): 24 - 25 Mar
The 'desert' tour was EXCELLENT! Three days of driving though the most interesting places stopping every 40mins or so for amazing views, thermal springs, active volcanoes, flamingoes, red, green, white and clear lakes, salt lakes (driving through them!), rock formations, strange plants and cactuses, mud geyers, or brilliant food prepared for us on the spot by the driver. And we slept in really nice hostels, one of which was made and furnished entirely out of salt blocks.
And this cost 90US$!!!
The cheapest tour was 75US$, but they had no food, dodgy hostels, food poisoning = 17 hours on a drip in an Uyuni hospital, and drunk drivers---best 15 dollars I ever spent!
Mar 24:
Passes above 5000 metres a.m.s.l.
Lago: Colorada, Verde, Blanco?, geysers and walloping mud pools,
Altitude sickness
Braaied chicken with rice a super-bien-soup.
Mar 25:
too much to remember, need a shower...
The Salt Hotel
Mar 26:
Isla Pescada, cactuses, coral, pancakes!
Funny photos,
Middle of nowhere, can't tell land from sky,
racing through the 2 - 10 cm deep salt lake (end of the rainy season) for hours,
Uyuni, train cemetery.
And this cost 90US$!!!
The cheapest tour was 75US$, but they had no food, dodgy hostels, food poisoning = 17 hours on a drip in an Uyuni hospital, and drunk drivers---best 15 dollars I ever spent!
Mar 24:
Passes above 5000 metres a.m.s.l.
Lago: Colorada, Verde, Blanco?, geysers and walloping mud pools,
Altitude sickness
Braaied chicken with rice a super-bien-soup.
Mar 25:
too much to remember, need a shower...
The Salt Hotel
Mar 26:
Isla Pescada, cactuses, coral, pancakes!
Funny photos,
Middle of nowhere, can't tell land from sky,
racing through the 2 - 10 cm deep salt lake (end of the rainy season) for hours,
Uyuni, train cemetery.
posted by Colin at 11:37 pm
2 Comments:
Hey Collie, sounds great, you making the rest of us really, jelous. Sounds like chicken and drips are the order of the day.
Try to post more pics, you know us boys are visually stimulated.
Have a jol for the rest of us wankers entering the looming winterey wetness!
Cheers
1 SUGAR
nice to see foties are back...Col, you'll be interested to hear that prospective sutherland site #2 was Rabies' plaas in the karoo....they still have this arb french built 50m diameter concrete base in the middle of a skaapveld!sutherland won by being an hour closer to CT.
enjoy!
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