The main attraction of the trip to Bolivia was driving through the spacious Salar the Uyuni. The enormous salt flat is visited by thousands of tourists each year for the experience is absolutely uncomparable. Uyuni, just like Atacama, used to be a lake that due to climate changes dried off leaving a thick layer of salt. It is nearly 11,000 square kilometers of salty nothingness!
The Bolivian adventure begins from here! One of the tours we took from San Pedro de Atacama was a 4-day jeep ride through Bolivia's southern national parks. The tour's grand finale was at Salar de Uyuni (Uyuni Salt Flats), but this I shall describe in the next post.
For the first two days of the tour we drove around Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve. I never could remember the full name of it, had to Google it every time. But apart from the name, this reserve is absolutely splendid. There are basically no roads, just jeep-tracks crossing the vast bolivian wilderness, and this is how the tours jump from lagoon to lagoon, from volcanos to rocks. There were plenty of interesting natural phenomenons to see.
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