- Laguna Colorada
- Hot thermal baths
meals
We'll continue our journey in off-road vehicles, enjoying the beautiful yet cold landscape.
In the Laguna Colorada (Red Lagoon), we'll have a picnic lunch surrounded by gigantic salt lakes, coloured lagoons, volcanoes, geysers, and despite the rugged terrain, many highland flamingos.
With a bit of luck the water will be high enough to enjoy hot thermal baths, although if this is the case, we might suffer a little when the times comes to get out.
In the afternoon, we'll cross the border and change our vehicle.
travel day (car/bus/boat)
Uyuni – San Juan
23/11/2008
Today, after sleeping in, we started our 2-day-Jeeptour.
Divided into 2 groups we said goodbye to paved roads and drove into the direction of the salt desert. First, we stopped at a small village where we learned something about salt extraction and salt processing. Shortly after we drove into the brilliant white of the salt desert. A great view – we started our first photo session – and not our last one ;-).
At about noon we reached the Inkahuasi (fish island) – an island in midst the salt lake. Besides a little snack we did a walk to the “peak” of the island from where we had a great view. We also had to take some pictures of the giant cacti.
In the late afternoon we left the salt desert and arrived at San Juan at dawn. With dinner and a little wine we concluded the day.
“Only one more picture”
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