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Wow,
This part of Bolivia is just amazing, landscapes are unique, nature is master and we are so small...
We've been travelling in 4x4 for 4 days with Julie, Axel and others we met on the road, among lagunas, geysers, desert mountains, volcanos, salt and all types of minerals I had never seen before... Bolivia is rich, very rich and yet it is one of the poorest country in the world...
I took a plane from Santiago to Calama on Wednesday and then joined Julie in San Pedro de Atacama. This small town in the desert is really peaceful, quiet, with nice people, and weird enough ... great fashion designers!
We left on Thursday morning, crossing the Bolivian border and driving from 2500m to 4300m in a few hours. Pictures will show you the extraordinary things we saw, even if I am a bit desappointed of my pictures' colours... ;) we slept in a cabana in a middle of nowhere at 4300m high, the head hurts a bit during first night. "mejor tomar que fumar" we've been advised haha, meaning "you'd better drink than smoke", but actually at this altitud you only want coca leaves and sleep.
The day after the head was much better, landscapes were still amazing, and we were still wide opened eyes. we slept in an hostal made of salt, where ironically we could not find salt to put on our papas fritas. Salar de Uyuni, it's 4 to 5 meters of salt accumulated on a 12km length when water dries... see the pics.
The way back from Uyuni to San Pedro de Atacama had a bit of Bolivian style: very old car, driver's brother climbing in the 4x4 illegally with many many boxes and stuff, 4 hours late, a tire punctured in the middle of nowhere, a driving license got into a surprise pocket, 987 coca leaves an hour, a sausage at midnight that does not look like a sausage... but we love it because it's Bolivia ;)
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