Day 4: Today we got up at 4am as we were going to see the sun rise in the flats, there was no light as the hostels electric only ran from 7pm-10pm. The sunrise was A-Mazing so beautiful and worth the early rise. We then headed to an island called inca Kawsi which was all old coral and had loaddssss of cactuses some really tall and we had walk around whilst the cooks prepared breakfast. This mornings breakfast included frosties and a cake! We then had a little wal...

Day 3: So our plan was to get up at 3am and leave by 4am to take a back route that was mainly off road to try and get out the park and avoid the blockades. We left just before 4am and it was freezing and dark and we were driving through rivers and really off road. At one point we got to what looked like a no through route and the drivers all got out to build a wall of stones into the river so the drop wasn't so much. We all had to get out and walk up the hill aft...

Day two: we left our bags at the hostel as we weren't going to be able to get to the second hostel due to the blockade. We drove for a while and then stopped at the green lake and the white lake where there were loads of flamingos, 3 different types. They were quite impressive. We then carried on and went to some hot springs which were loverly and then headed to the blue lake where we also saw the volcano. We went back to the hot springs for lunch (another delish...

Got up early for our salt flats tour, had some breakfast and met a lovely olde couple from Newcastle who were traveling for 10 months in their retirement, Norma and Chris. They'd been doing some house sitting in Mexico for 5 months and were pretty interesting. We the. Got sorted into our jeeps and we were with a couple called Emily and Nigel, from London. Our cook was called Kata and the guide was freddy. We drove a lot the first day seeing all the crazy beautifu...