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Today everyone was feeling better from the altitude (we had gotten up to 5000m the day before) so we set off very refreshed to see more of Uyuni.
Today we saw more rock formations than plains and lakes, stopping at formations that looked like windows, a very big camel (which of course the boys climbed up), and the World Cup, although neither Rob nor I really saw the resemblance...
A little later we stopped and walked over to a beautiful laguna, and climbed up the neighbouring rocks with Suzanna to see the view to the other side, where loads of birds nested.
Later we drove over to a small village for lunch, where our guide Eddie told us some more about the people and culture in Bolivia. It is landlocked and separated from a lot of South America by the Andes, so it is very behind the rest of the continent. He told us that around 96% of the people are indigineous (although we later saw online that it was more like 65%). It was really interesting.
After lunch we headed to a small town called Jumaya, which was almost deserted and abandoned. It was surreal. We bought all sorts of local beers for the group to try, including cactus, quinoa (which is everywhere here), honey and normal! It was nice to share between us, and I didn't mind paying overinflated prices as the people were clearly so poor and deserted. Eddie told us only six families now live in the village.
After we drove down to the salar de uyuni, the famous salt flat which is the biggest in the world. We were doing it properly the next day and so just headed straight to our hotel for dinner. It was really cool, a hotel made from salt! We had a really nice dinner and enjoyed some wine and monopoly deal, it was really nice.
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