Salar de Uyuni tour
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Sure, seven, why not? Don´t know that all seven colors are visible in this photo. Maybe the winds weren´t quite magical enough. Still purty though.
Even though I am currently in Brazil, the current barrage of photos are from Bolivia, waaaay back in January. Who remembers January? Is everybody happy it is March? Very good then. I spend way too much time as it is uploading photos to flickr and I am still a month and a half behind.
What more can I say about Bolivia and the Salar de Uyuni tour? The scenery is some of the most spectacular I´ve seen in South America (did I already mention that?) and Bolivia is definitely the most impoverished country I´ve been in, not to say they aren´t rich in spirit.
It was a bit of a sprint through the country. The goal was to get to Buenos Aires and then get back to Peru in about three and a half weeks. All overland. Travelling overland in Bolivia can be tricky as they love a good strike. There were two when I was there, one in Copacabana (that´s the ORIGINAL Copacabana for all of you singing along with Barry Manilow right now) and another in Uyuni. The first strike wasn´t actually in Copacabana, rather that´s where I was and I was trying to reach La Paz. Some branch of the transportation workers were protesting a raise in insurance costs and blocked the main road into La Paz.
The second strike I noticed after getting back from the tour of the Salar. Actually I noticed there were a bunch of people gathered on the tracks outside the train station and I thought they were just having a nice Sunday afternoon gettogether. I was tired. Later I realized my misreading of the situation when I was waiting at the train station and there was no train, just me and some of the employees. After finally asking them if there actually was a train - originally they told me ``yes, the train does leave at 10:30 on Saturdays``- leaving that night, they told me ``No , there is a strike´´. Glad we could clear that up.
Back to the hotel to wait for a super fun busride from Uyuni to Tupiza the next morning.
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