Sunday, February 1, 2009

Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia: Jan 29th - 31st

- The 3-day Uyuni tour to Chile (San Pedro de Atacama) began a visit to the Train Cemetary. The train system didn't really take off in Bolivia... so hence why it's a cemetary. Anyway, one of the trains is apparently one that Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid robbed. Huh.





- Here are the actual salt flats where it's just salt for 12,000 sq km! It's about a couple meters deep in some areas, but can be over 20 meters deep in others!




Other photos from the tour, which involved some lakes - like the Laguna Colarado (a red lake) and Laguna Verde (a green lake from the copper) - and the desert... oh and we ran into the same Downhill Madness bike group who were on a similar tour of Uyuni. Rich, the nurse, looked at my stitches to make sure my knee was healing properly.

















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