Our transportation for the next 3 days.
Laguna Blanca - the white lake, at 4700 m (15420 ft).
Laguna Verde - the green lake, and the 5900 m (19360 ft) Licancabur volcano.
There is a small Inca ruin at the Licancabur summit and allegedly young warriors had
to climb to the top and freeze to death as a sacrifice to the gods.
View from Licancabur.
A lone flamingo.
What planet is this?
Parked at 4900 m (16100 ft).
Rocas de Dali - rock formations on a sand dune.
Hot spring.
Sol de maņana - geysers and boiling mud pools at 5000 m (16400 ft).
Yup, the ground is warm!
First view of Laguna Colorada.
Laguna Colorada - the red lake.
5 colors : white, yellow, pink, brown, blue.
Flamingos and a UFO.
aaah, lamas and volcanoes...
The white is not ice, it's borax mineral (hydrated sodium borate)!
Tired and cold at 05:00 AM. :-)
Valle de las rocas.
A seldom seen Vizcacha.
The Yareta plant grows 1 mm (1/25 inch) per year which makes this lump pretty old.
Black spotted yellow valley floor.
Chile is that way.
Sunrise over Salar de Uyuni - the Uyuni salt desert.
Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt desert in the world.
Patternless salt surface.
Is this really salt?!
Salt pattern formations.
The salt layer is 7 m (23 ft) at the thickest point.
The Uyuni salt desert covers over 10000 square kilometers (4000 square miles).
Isla Incahuasi (a.k.a. Isla del pescado) - an island in a sea of salt.
The island is covered with cactus.
height=12 m, growth=1 cm per year => 1200 years old.
The salt hotel. (yes, it's built of salt!)
Piles and piles of salt.
Free salt tasting.
The train cemetary.
Where Bolivian trains come to die...
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