Salar de Uyuni (Part 3)

The main attraction. The Salar de Uyuni. When we first started planning this trip and decided on spending a good chunk of the time in S. America, this was one of four main natural attractions we really wanted to see, along with Machu Picchu, Iguazu Falls (which we are at as this is posting), and [...]

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Landscapes (Salar de Uyuni-Part 2)

I don’t know how many times I said the following phrase while on our tour, “I really feel like we’re on another planet.” Now I’ve seen mountains many times over the years, in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, upstate New York, Vermont, Switzerland, and now Peru and Bolivia, but I have never seen the differing [...]

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Are We on Another Planet? (Salar de Uyuni-Part 1)

No, we’re just in Bolivia. I found myself asking this question multiple times on our four day tour through the Salar de Uyuni. First, the tour name is a little misleading as we didn’t even see the famous Salt Flats (Salar de Uyuni) until the morning of our fourth day. It would be more accurate [...]

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