Three Day Adventure

For three days my family and I traveled all throughout Bolivia in a four wheeler with two other people to see what Bolivia has to offer to us. We experienced everything from salt flat covering almost 4000 square miles to seeing geysers in a semi active volcano.

We began our journey in a town called Uyuni where we were dropped off after an over night bus ride. Once we arrived, a vehicle from the tour company came and picked us up to bring us to their store to get breakfast and walk around so we could kill some time

At 10am our four wheeler came to pick us up, we strapped our backpacks to the roof of the car so that gave us extra space. It was a 15 minute drive to grab the other two people who would be joining us, once we picked them up, we made our way to our first destination, an old train graveyard.

The trains were all completely rusted with lots of missing parts (basically just skeletons of old trains) and one thing that definitely limited the exploration of the trains was how crowded it was. There were tourists everywhere and because of this we decided to walk a little further away so that. After a few photos, we headed over to our next destination, the salt flats of Uyuni.

The drive to that salt flat took a while but the views where stunning. The salt was very white (almost blinding) but not reflective because it hadn't rained in a while so the pictures where not as good. After lunch ,we went to go and see if we could get some better pictures at a different part of the salt flats. The other part we went to was absolutely amazing because there were about 2 inches of rain that covered the surface which made it reflective. We took some photos that made it seem like we were standing on a lake. Once we were done with the salt flats we made our way up into the mountains and into the Atacama desert to try and get to our hostel where we would be spending the night. On our way to the hostel, we stopped at a huge rock boulder and came across these chinchilla looking animals and there were so many of them and they weren't shy at all.

On the second day we went to see some gigantic cactus's that was supposedly over one thousand years old. The cactus's ranged from 10 to15 feet tall and also 1-2 feet in diameter. We stopped to see these for about thirty minutes then continued on. Next, we went to a sanctuary where a lot of flamingos hang out and eat algae. The water was all sorts of colors including green, blue, white, and pink. The reason for this had to do with the chemicals in the water and the algae.

The next and last morning of this tour, we went into a semi-active volcano and saw some really cool geysers and in the volcano we saw bubbling was clay due to the exteme heat of the volcano. The were a lot of steam at the surface because of the cold air mixing with the heat of the volcano. This tour spot was also very crowded with people from other tour groups. After breakfast, my dad I I went into a hot spring to celebrate our last day there (also it was a nice treat because it was very cold that morning).

Finally, we were dropped of at a border crossing with Chile where we will spend the next few weeks.