Salar de Uyuni (Salt Flats)

13th April 2010

continuing on our excursion with Tupiza Tours.

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On the edge of the salt flats, we spent a night in a hotel made entirely of salt – salt brick walls, salt floor as well as salt beds, tables and chairs.
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Our final day began as the sun rose over the largest salt flats in the world, El Salar de Uyuni (10.5 square kilometres) at 3700 metres.
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In the middle is La Isla del Pescado (Fish Island), a coral island covered in Cardon cactus.
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We spent some time composing tricky camera shots on the salt surface before ending our excursion at Uyuni with its train cemetry where all Bolivian trains go when they die.
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Hotel made of salt

Hotel made of salt

A tiny church on the edge of the salt flats

A tiny church on the edge of the salt flats

Sun rise over the salt flats

Sunrise over the salt flats

The surface of the salt flats

The surface of the salt flats

Cactus on Isla Pescado

Cactus on Isla del Pescado

The coral island is covered in cactus

The coral island is covered in cactus

Victor and Magali lining up some tricky camera shots on the salt

Victor and Magali lining up some tricky camera shots on the salt

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Piles of salt ready for processing

Piles of salt ready for processing

Dead trains at Uyuni

Dead trains at Uyuni

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