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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 after this to make the truck lighter but just after this point however, on the very thin rocky track in the dark, one of the jeeps got stuck and we were all stranded for a while. We made a fire on the hillside to keep warm and after an hour the cooks decided breakfast was in order. It was sooooo cold and. We were stranded for nearly 2 hours in the dark, but eventually after building up the road with rocks and clearing other big rocks the truck managed to get up! Huzzah! By then the sun had risen and w had to walk up a few other hills before we could get back in as it was to dangerous for us to be in them. We drove for what seemed like a long time but eventually we escaped and it was a great feeling! Such an adventure. The poor cooks had apparently had no sleep as they were up all night making our breakfasts and lunch for that day. We stopped at a rock that looked like a condor and then some super cool rock formations a bit further on then had lunch. Another delish meal of chicken, rice, plantain, and potatoes and salad. Yum. We also saw the black lagoon, some old catacombs, a disused railway line and saw our first glimpse of a salt flat. We eventually arrived at a salt hotel which was super cool, I licked the wall to heck it was really salt. It was. The walls, seats, tables, lights, floors and pretty much everything was made from salt. And there was a bit shower for 10bolivianos (£1) best shower ever. We had dinner there again and where kata also gave us a bottle of wine and then had a little walk onto the flats at night to see the stars (they weren't as great as we thought) and then headed to bed as we had another early start the next day.
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