Friday, April 3, 2009

los salares de uyuni

Howdy! Here are pictures of our trip to the salt flats of Bolivia, slash the other realllllly cool stuff that's in that region. We travelled in SUVs for 3 days to these completely isolated natural wonders. It was really incredible, & also incredibly exhausting :P!

Salt Flats!
Salt Hotel. Everything was literally made of salt (we didn't stay there, but I wish we had!).
This is how a lot of of families in the salt flats make their living- by harvesting salt to sell in for consumption (mmmm :P).


This cactus was almost a thousand years old.
Yay!!
Our "jeeps."

Friends. Although Sarah's face looks really weird, hehe :P.

This is the pilot plant for lithium extraction. VERY big modern issue in Bolivia.



I love train tracks, it takes me back in time :). 
A tiny pueblo, & an old Incan gravesite- those stone structures are the graves.
An Incan. yeeeeeeek..
Will, being.... Will.
Note the smoke. It's a volcano!

"what what??? am I really in a field of llamas????"


"Will, show me how you feel about being in a sweltering hot jeep for 4 hours today?" (the sentiment was shared, bah!)
The rules @ "stinky lake" (I kid you not).

fussyyyyyyyyyyyy

the "stone tree."

I had not idea that this was what I was taking a picture of, but PLEASE observe the hilarity of this hahahaha.

Llamas llamas llamas llamas llamas. I really wanted one to spit one me, but that dream is yet to be realized :P.

YEEEEE!!!!!! at the "pink lake."

We visited/were kind of on an active volcano, which was eerily reminescent of the Land Before Time :P. 




La laguna "verde," con amigos. Please observe my hair :P.



Me, in this part of Bolivia that looks soooo much like Zion National Park.
I love Bolivia, I really really do <3.


Miss & love you!!

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