Two tours in Uyuni then overnight bus to La Paz






 I took a start light & sunrise tour from 3:00-7:00 am then a full day tour from 10:30 am to 7:30 pm over Uyuni salt flat. Then I buses overnight to La Paz. So much for one day! Salar de Uyuni comprises over 10,000km² and is the world's largest salt flat. The salt is over 10 meters thick in the center. In the dry season, the salt plains are a completely flat expanse of dry salt, but in the wet season, it is covered with a thin sheet of water that is still drivable. At times salt flat is covered in very clear water, making it the largest natural mirror in the world.








The start light & sunrise tour (200b) was cold but fun with the guide taking special photos for each of us.  The full day tour (250b) included TRAIN CEMETERY, COLCHANI TOWN, SALT OF EYES, SALT HOTEL MUSEUM PLAYA BLANCA, DRY AREA TO TAKE TRICK ART PICTURES, INCAHUASI ISLAND, and WATER AREA TO SEE THE MIRROR EFFECT OF THE SKY AND SUNSET.











The Train Graveyard (3669m, 20.479 S, 66.834 W) has a lot of wrecked old steam locomotives. Colchani, Bloques de Sal (3653m, 20.301 S, 66.938 W) is a village 7 kilometers north of Uyuni that survives off of the processing of salt. Salt souvenirs are available, a salt museum that has carvings of animals created with salt (they make you pay the fee upon exit), some examples of furniture and home-building techniques using salt. we had lunch at a Salt Hotel (3653m, 20.331 S, 67.047 W) made completely out of salt.  

The Isla de los Pescados or Isla Incahuasi (3653m, 20.243 S, 67.625 W) has a name originating from the fish-like appearance of the island's reflection in the wet season. There is a fee of BOB30 to visit this island of fossilized coral covered in 1000-year-old cacti in the middle of the Salar. They only branch out every few decades, meaning a 7-meter-tall cactus is approximately 700 years old! If you see a cactus with seven or eight "arms," ​​it's a millennium-old creature! The Incas and even modern people use their sturdy, woody skeletons to build houses and make furniture. These cacti outlive many empires, standing silently, witnessing the salt flats dry up from the sea into white land, like ancient sentinels guarding the salt flats.

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