Salar de Uyuni & La Paz, Bolivia
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This document summarizes a trip to Salar de Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia from June 1-7, 2006, with a side trip to La Paz. Key locations visited included the salt flats, where salt is mined and salt furniture is made; flamingo-filled lakes where the birds get their color from minerals; geysers and hot springs; and colorful saline lakes formed by different dissolved metals. The trip also included optical illusions caused by the landscape, staying in a salt hotel, and visits to La Paz including its markets before returning home.
Salar de Uyuni & La Paz, Bolivia
- 1. Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia June 1 - 7 , 2006 With side trip to: La Paz Armadillo: Real and Salt
- 2. Mining salt Salt houses and furniture. No falta la Coca.
- 3. Here’s the super soft sweater I bought in Perú. You can do cool tricks with the white background, but I just didn’t think of anything.
- 4. Copper Hill
- 6. Flamingo Mountains The flamingos get their color from the mineral in the mountains.
- 8. Lago Colorado Copper in the water
- 9. Geysers and Thermal Waters
- 10. Group Photo! It was so dang cold. We slept in our jackets. You might ask: How cold was it? It was so cold, it was snowing inside.
- 11. Lago Verde Zinc in the water
- 12. More Dalí inspirations. Isn’t it amazing how nature can seemingly defy the laws of physics?
- 13. Salty Dawn / Salty Sunrise
- 14. I can’t remember the story behind my getting to stay in this fancy Salt Hotel. However, I do remember feeling sick with a cold.
- 15. Chinchilla!!!
- 16. Optical Illusion: Floating Hills Leaving Salar de Uyuni. Back to La Paz and civilization...
- 17. El Mercado en La Paz There is some sort of tradition of burying one of these. I’m not sure if it’s for New Years or Summer Solstice or something.
- 18. In case you ever need a dessicated baby alpaca, you can find them here.
- 19. Bolivia seems in so much pain. There are manifestaciones going on all the time; people wanting their government to listen to them. There is abject poverty here, and many social injustices. The Christ is made from old rusty nails. It’s an appropriate statement on the state of affairs.
- 20. Lake Titicaca
- 21. A surf of clouds