Next day we headed to Uyuni, which is the gateway to the salt plains. After a nice night chilling in the hotel (which did really good Pizza!) we headed off early to the salt flats with our guide in some 4x4‘s. On the way we stopped to visit the train graveyard, which is where all the trains which used to carry the salt are just left there to rust. They had some cool graffiti on them and made for some nice pics. We also stopped in a small village where they sold items made with salt. I bought a nice shot glass - completely made of salt - to add to my collection which will hopefully be good for tequila shots!!
We then headed into the salt flats which were vast. At the beginning you could see lots of small piles of salt with local people pilling it up…I have no idea how they knew one pile from the other when they came back for it as there were so many piles on such a monotonous landscape...25,000 tonnes of salt are extracted every year from the salt plains which are believed to be made up of 10 Billion tonnes of salt!!!! Under the salt flats is 60% of the worlds Lithium so if Bolivia plays it's cards right it could turn into a very wealthy country in years to come as the demand for lithium batteries continues to increase...at the minute corruption is making everyone fearful of expoliting the resource but watch this space!!But the main attraction to the salt plains is the vast white flats which allow you to take great perspective pictures!! Well if you have a good camera, A LOT of patience and a bit of imagination!! We had some of each of those things!! So the rest of the post is just our attempts to make some funny pictures but it was very hard and took a lot of time to set up the props and get the people in the right places!!!!
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| This is supposed to read 'Amber' the name of our truck!! |
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