After loading up, our caravan of 3 Toyota Land Cruisers (TLC) drove straight to the town of Uyuni to drop off our luggage at the Tonito Hotel. Following that we drove to another part of Uyuni to visit some souvenir stalls and visit a salt factory. There are many small salt factories in the area. The sale is manually dug up from the salt flats, heated up to kill the bacteria, then put into small bags for sale.
We are now ready to visit the salt flats.
Salar de Uyuni or commonly known as the Salt Flats of Bolivia is the largest salt flat in the world. It covers an area of about 11,000 sq km or about 4,000 square miles. When we visited in March, it was just after the rainy season. The salt flats are flooded, which is a blessing because it allows some creative photography. Because of the water you cannot tell where the sky begins and where the land ends. It creates a mirror effect.
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| Souvenir |
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| Picture from the salt flat |
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| An Illusion created by the water in the salt flat |
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| Man selling bags of salt |
PS: I've been having unreliable wifi since crossing over to Peru. We are now in Cusco. Day after tomorrow we'll start our Inca Trail hike to Machu Picchu. Obviously, I won't have wifi on the trail. I will have to update this post and add more posts when I get reliable wifi, perhaps in Lima.
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