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Uyuni + Salt Flats
The only way you could really understand the way the bus journey feels from La paz to Uyuni, would be if you were to ride the Runaway Mine Train at Disney world with a pneumatic drill attached to you. Then you might understand why it would be difficult to sleep and indeed eat anything during that particular night bus.
When I got off the bus I was a shadow of my former self, which unfortunately meant I agreed to sign up with the first tour company whose rep acosted me at the drop off point. As you can imagine I got ripped off, but they also didn't tell me I'd have to pay park entrance fee or that I'd have to py for my transfer into Chile. It seems the two 25 year old Canadiana girl that were apparently coming on my trip didn't exist either as I ended up with a group with 4 over 50s most of whom didn't speak English and a girl from Belarus. Therefore I would not recommend anyone use a tour company with 'Foreign' spelt wrong in the title!
My misfortuntune aside, the trip was amazing and over the 3 days there was so much more to see than the salt flats themselves, with a plethora of lakes, mountains, random rock formations and all kinds of stuff to see. It wasn't as cold as I expected either, although the last day we got up around 5 to see the sunrise over the geisers, which was cold beyond all comprehension. My highlight was the first lake we got to that was fenced in by mountains with a small collection of Flamingos. Hopefully I can use that as the picture for this blog when I get it uploaded.
Language and age barriers aside, my group were very nice, although I did realise asking them if they were on facebook at the end of the tour might be a pointless excercise.
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