The last days in Bolivia!!

After the salt plains, we drove for the next 2 days overland through Los Flamincos National Park. It was long days of driving passing geysers, boiling mud pots, lakes of different colours and natural hot springs. The park gets it name from the flamingo’s that come to visit it every year. Lucky for us they were there and it was breathtaking to see them fly around the lakes. The colours of the lakes varied from red to green to creamy white depending on what minerals were in each one. The Laguna Colorado was our favourite with its bright red due to the algae in the lake and fringed with white minerals. 

Laguna Colorado - Red because of the type of Algae in the Lake 

Laguna Verde - Green because of the Zinc and Magnesium

Laguna Blanco - White because of the Calcium

Tom having fun in the Geysers - the steam was shooting out of this one pretty fast!!

Definitely a pool with a view!!

To have a break from the driving on the second day we stopped for breakfast at a natural hot spring!! Its not every day that you have tea and toast and a dip in a pool overlooking some flamingos in a lake at 5000m above sea level!!! It took a while to talk ourselves into getting our swim stuff on as the temperature outside was about 5oC but once you got into the pool it was gorgeous!! It was ideal as early that morning we had visited the geysers and boiling mud pots so it was nice to clean up and relax in 30oC water watching the flamingo’s fly by.

The Flamingos and Llamas were very cool but it was really hard to get close for a good picture!!

Some weird green moss stuff - cant remember the name!!