Day 43: Uyuni / Salt Flats day 1

We got up early, piling into three Toyota landcruisers, before heading out to the "Train Cemetery", just outside of Uyuni. Here, trains from the early 20th Century boom of the city´s mining have been left together to rust.


A few hours later, we arrived at the Salt Plains. They´re a very bizarre sight, unimaginable really, and a unique spot for persperctive-defying photographs; such as climbing out of a Pringles tub, or balancing on top of a cigarette packet. According to our guide, the plains themselves are roughly the same size as Northern Ireland, aprox. 12 million square kilometres.




Later that day, we headed on to "Fish Island", an island covered in cacti, so called because of it´s shape when seen from above, before continuing on towards the Salt Hotel where we were to spend the night, built entirely from salt bricks.