Salar tour day 3

January 31st, Day 3 Uyuni Tour, Bolivia

Day 3 began with bright sunshine, less cold so we stripped down to 3 layers from the 6-7 of the previous days. We drove through desert Silioli, once again passing lagoons filled with pink flamencos. We also stopped at the 'arbol de peidra' (stone tree) which is basically lots of cool volcanic rock formations. We ate lunch at the side of a path surrounded by wild llamas, so cool. 

Continued on till we stopped at the lagoona Negra (black lagoon) but it wasn't as awesome as the previous lagoons since I didn't actually think it was black black - more bluish black. Finally we were on the road to Uyuni town, where we'd spend the night before sunrise at the Salar de Uyuni. On the way we had a flat tire, second of the trip, but was fixed quick. The nice thing is many tour groups stop to help. The not so nice thing is that so many cars had flats, that we also had to stop for Fillipe to help them. 

We finally got to the town at 6:30 pm and had to rush to buy our tickets onwards to La Paz for the boys and San Pedro de Atacama for Bernie and me tomorrow. Uyuni town is completely crap, as we'd been warned multiple times before so we knew we didn't want to stay more than 1 night. It's like passing through dirty Agra to see the Taj Mahal, except Uyuni is much worse. Back at the lodging we had a lovely lasagna dinner (Mama listened to Bernie's feedback) and complimentary wine and chatted chatted chatted away. 

I write this at 12:30 am as the 3 of us are planning to sleep (4 bed dorm tonight) since we have to wake up at 4:00 am to leave to catch the Salar sunrise but Bernie just won't stop talking so the boys can't sleep, thus I have to end my blog post now just to make him keep quiet!