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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Salar de Uyuni


23.06.2013 – 25.06.2013
The Journey: La Paz – Oruro - Potosi – Uyuni – Isla  - Tahua – Salinas de Graci Mendoza – Challapata – Oruro – La Paz (1373 km)

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Located 3656 meters above the Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt field , which has an area of 10,582 km2 , and the thickness of the central part of the salt layer is approximately 10 meters .
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Oruro – Monumento al Minero – dedicated to the miners' hard work.

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View from under the big helmet.

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And the dragon, which is supposed to symbolize the dangers that await miners underground.

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Evening sun in the mountains.

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Uyuni – Chaco War hero memorial.

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In the middle of the street - TV and other video equipment repair, a good exemple that the service must be as easily accessible to the customer as possible. Not any walking long distances with heavy belongings.You just open the door of your car and put your TV or something else on the counter.

The Train Cemetery is located about three kilometres from the town.

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Uyuni sunset.

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The first morning at Salt Lake. Outside it is cold, about 5 degrees. Here it is winter at the end of June. Actually it is not the worst , because in Uyunis the temperature has been up to 20 frost.

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Salt in small heaps .

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Salt Hotel. The doors are closed.

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The window will get from me one more sticker.

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Next to the hotel there are flags of various countries.

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Isla del Pescados.

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The plates of the tables are made of salt.

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The world of Cacti in the middle of the salt field.

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One of the oldest cactus of the island, the height is 9 meters and the age of it is about 900 years .

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Further - northwards.

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There is water at the borders of the Salt Lake.

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Back on dry land.

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This is not an abandoned village, as it seems at first glance .

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Jayu Quta meteor crater.

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Because of the road repairs – the tracks next to the road had to be used.

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Continued ...

2 comments:

Buscando Waslala said...

Hi Tarmo!

We are Javi and Mayte from Buscando Waslala! Do you remember us? We meet in Puerto Natales!

We were in Uyuni just some days before you! :-(

And we just published our post about salar and Uyuni just one week ago too! :-)

We had a lot of problems in Bolivia... But yes it's beautiful!

We're now at home. We finished our two years travel 3 months ago...

Enjoy your travel!

PD: You can see our posts about Uyuni here http://buscando.waslala.org/viaje/chile/uyuni

Tarmo said...

Hi Javi and Mayte!

Of course I remember, nice to hear about you!

Updating a blog takes time. I am currently in Brazil, nice country, and very big.

Good luck!