wandering around on the mind-boggling brilliance of the salt flats of uyuni was blindingly surreal. definately near the top of my out-of-world experiences list. as my bare feet traipsed through the submerged salty wonderland, i couldn´t help but think of slartibartfast the planet designer from hitchhiker´s guide to the galaxy and how this unreal natural formation had to have been the result of some eccentric crazy who was just having some fun.
for 3 days i traveled by jeep with a few girls from argentina and a couple from france. we visited lagoons dotted with flamingos, marveled at amazing volcanic rock formations, and watched the sun rise with sol de mañana´s geysers near the chilean border.
from there it was a return trip to uyuni and a night bus to potosí, the highest city in the world. at around 11 pm the bus stopped with a flat tire...i held my breath...but thankfully we were on the road again a mere 15 minutes later. just enough time for me to hop off and have a cup of tea in a little restaurant in the middle of nowhere.
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