It`s a little salty...

So we had a few photos posted by some friends that we made on the Salt Flats outside of Uyuni. I thought I would write a quick synopsis of the tour since we haven`t really talked about it at all. First of all Uyuni is a town with nothing there except for tour agencies and hostels.

And don`t touch the switch for the electric water heaters while you were showering, some people found that out the hard way.

We took the 3 day tour, it ended on the border of Chile and Bolivia. Driving through the vast desert over the salt flats was a pretty surreal experience. Never in my life did I ever desire the keys to a super fast car or bike to rip through the salt flats with. It seemed like it was neverending. The first day took us to the Salt Hotel as well as an "island" in the middle of the flats that was littered with cacti. After that we took some goofy pictures on the flats using camera tricks as you will see below. We ended up staying at nother building that was also made of salt and slept on salt beds... pretty cool stuff.

The second day was pretty awesome, we visited some lagoons including the Laguna Colorada which is a multicolored lagoon. The colors are caused by a type of micro-organism that lives in the lagoon as well as the different chemicals. We are all facing the Laguna Colorada in the picture below.

The last day was pretty much driving through some geysers and a dip in the hot springs, very relaxing though it smelled of sulfur. We watched the sun rise over the mountains in the desert which was beautiful. At about mid day we dropped off the crew that was heading to Chile and embarked on our 6 hour drive back to Uyuni. We got to see a sweet little desert town called Villa Del Mar on the way back as well as a cool area of weird rock formations. We also got caught in a dust storm which was pretty neat. We`ll have more stories and pictures up as they come!