Hello there! I’m back today with another super duper awesome blog post for you about our three-day tour in the Salt Flat Desert area in Bolivia. We started off our first day by waking up at five twenty am and after getting all packed up, we left the last piece of luxury we would have for 10 days. We left for the airport and while we waited, I had a delicious chocolate cake and then we flew to the town of Uyuni, where we drove to have breakfast. Once we ate a good meat sandwich, we met our guide, David, and then we drove to a train graveyard! When we went there, we took photos next to wrecked and rusted trains and they were all very cool looking. I always thought that stuff like that was interesting for some reason, but after that, we drove to a factory that compacted salt into stuff like bricks and I even got to taste some! We then drove for a while until reaching a field of salt and water. We moved around I the water and it reminded me immensely of the Dead Sea. The two are so similar and the salt got everywhere while curing a bruise on my foot. We had lunch then and it was a great meal of Shakshuka and avocados. We drove to a salt hotel where everything was made of salt and then we drove off to an isolated place where we started to take photos with our props! We took many cool ones that I will post below and it was incredibly fun to do them all. After that, we drove and took a photo of the sunset and then we went to where we would stay tonight. After an amazing dinner of potato soup, I have a feeling that this trip will be awesome!
Hello everyone! I’m back today with another super duper awesome blog post for you about our second day in the Salt Flat Desert and how we saw many cool structures and chinchillas! So first of all, we woke up at about seven am and after having a bread cake for breakfast, we got into our jeep and drove for the rest of the day. Although we did not see any salt today, we did stop at a train track where we posed for photos. It was fun because we did all of these cool poses and after that, we continued our long drive down the desert. We stayed in the jeep most of the day, but that was ok because we listened to awesome music, we were in air condition, and got to see many cool sites from out of the window. One time, we stopped on the road and we saw a fox in bad condition looking at us from up close! He was very cute and it was a cool experience because foxes don’t often sit and wait for people. Once we left him though, he started to chase us and it was sad because it was like we were abandoning him. We then gave him the eggs we put in salt water yesterday and after eating them gratefully, we left to go to a few interesting structures. Our first one looked sort of like the grand canyon and there were cute chinchillas everywhere! They are like bunnies that can climb and after that, we stopped at another place where the wind nearly froze me to death. After that, we drove to a very interesting national park. The park was the same as everything else we saw, but the one thing that was interesting was that the river was red! Not with blood, but with the colorful bacteria that swam in it. We then drove to our hostel for the night and after losing every game of UNO, we had spaghetti for dinner and then we went to bed.
Hello everyone on the other side of whatever it is you are viewing this off of! I’m back today with another super duper awesome blog post for you about our long drive back to Uyuni and all the fun stuff along the way. So after waking up at six am, we got in our car and then drove until reaching a field of geysers! They were enormous and although I was breathing toxic gas, it was a fun experience and I learned much more there than I learned in science class. After that, we drove to a hot spring where we put on bathing suits and then swam! It was so hot in the spring that it countered the cold and it was really nice to swim after so long. After that, we had fruit for lunch and then we went to a llama place where there were wild llamas everywhere! They looked so cute and the scenery itself was amazing. It was like a marsh but also had a spring field feel to it. It was very peaceful and a few hours later we got to our hotel, had an amazing dinner, and then we went to bed homey and worried for the next five days of Amazon trekking.
