Southern Bolivia into Chile

Well we survived our 4 day adventure via train and Land Cruiser. Arriving in Uyuni we felt the cold air immediately. We booked our tour and left at 10 Bolivian time, meaning noon. A quick stop at the train boneyard and then off to the solar de Uyuni, the worlds largest salt flat.

A crazy desolate, flat, hard, mesmerizing, not mention salty place. Hard to describe the vast nature of this place? We took a few trick pictures and enjoyed our time with the 2 french, 2 italians and 2 bolivians (our driver Sebastian and our cook his wife Luisa).

We drove for miles with nothing arriving at our first place to stay, yikes. The only thing i will say is that Em and I slept together in a twin bed with as many blankets as we could find, super cold. The stars however were as close to God as I have felt this trip!

Our Cocinera Luisa, the food was Awesome!

Our next day we traveled further south stopping at different colored Lagoons, my fovorite Laguna Colorada, which was red with white borax on its shores and flamingos waltzing around.

Our driver was freakin crazy and about midday our side seemed to be a bit soft, thinking flat tire we stop, Sebastian climbs under to cruiser to take a look and says MUERTA. He digs into his tool kit and climbs back under, a few minutes later and punctured shock gets tossed aside. Just as we were wondering if you can drive where we are headed without a shock he yells VAMOS. Unfortunately Em and I were on that side of the truck, but fortunately it slowed him down!

The second night was much the same as the first, we shared a twin bed, but this time everyone was in the same room. We awoke and visited some geysers at 15,500 feet! It was super cold and we were exhausted.

To our final lagoon, skating on the solid ice, we then drive to the border. Em and I are the only ones who decided not to return to Uyuni 8 hours back on the roughest road you can imagine. Transfering to another bus we are now in Chile!

Only for a short time in San Pedro de Atacama, tomorrow we take a bus to Salta Argentina! I did do some sandboarding today which was quite interesting? We both have colds which means we are moving a bit slow but we are in good spirits. We both were feeling homesick yesterday on the 4th, missing family,friends and BBQ. So please email us some good photos of the 4th, we missed you all. Buenas noches.