Photo Sets » Bolivia - 2003
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We made the train. We booked ourselves into first class ($8, instead of $5) and sit back and relax for 8 hours. We see the sunset on our hectic day of travel that took us halfway across Bolivia. We wake up and decide that we will not take a tour of the salt flats today, but this changes when we realize we can travel to Northern Chile and then to Northern Argentina only today. We run back to the hotel, pack up, and then buy some blankets--one night we will be sleeping at almost 5000m (and we don't have sleeping bags). The salt flats are amazing, and they may be the biggest surprise of our entire trip (so far). We are shocked at their vastness and our eyes play tricks on us because we can no longer feel any sense of depth perception. At one point I mention that I would like to drive the 4x4 and the guide agrees to the bad idea. We survive my driving (although what could go wrong on the World' flattest spot). We spend the next couple of days touring other peculiarities of nature, trees of stone, red lake, green lake, geysers, and thousands of flamingos. We cross the border into Northern Chile and I illegally and unknowningly smuggle a Orange past their agricultural control point. I am not arrested.
We made the train. We booked ourselves into first class ($8, instead of $5) and sit back and relax for 8 hours. We see the sunset on our hectic day of travel that took us halfway across Bolivia. We wake up and decide that we will not take a tour of the salt flats today, but this changes when we realize we can travel to Northern Chile and then to Northern Argentina only today. We run back to the hotel, pack up, and then buy some blankets--one night we will be sleeping at almost 5000m (and we don't have sleeping bags). The salt flats are amazing, and they may be the biggest surprise of our entire trip (so far). We are shocked at their vastness and our eyes play tricks on us because we can no longer feel any sense of depth perception. At one point I mention that I would like to drive the 4x4 and the guide agrees to the bad idea. We survive my driving (although what could go wrong on the World' flattest spot). We spend the next couple of days touring other peculiarities of nature, trees of stone, red lake, green lake, geysers, and thousands of flamingos. We cross the border into Northern Chile and I illegally and unknowningly smuggle a Orange past their agricultural control point. I am not arrested.
