Three Days Exploring Bolivia's Remote Andean Regions

Hello everyone! Today's blogposts will describe all we saw and did on our tour around the remote southern part of the department of Potosi. As I mentioned in my last post, we took a four-hour bus trip from the city of Potosi to the town of Uyuni. The next morning, we found the guide that would lead us through part of Bolivia's mountainous wilderness for the next three days.

Our first stop: the Cemetery of Trains. My brothers loved clambering all over and exploring the trains' rusted parts, and we also took great pictures!

The rest of our stops during that day's car trip were in the world's largest salt flat, or, as it's called here, El Salar de Uyuni (The Salt Flat of Uyuni). I have only three words to sum up this part of our trip: Amazing photo opportunities!! After the Cemetery of Trains, we made five more stops during the day in this vast salt flat to explore and take photos, some fantastic and some funny. Enjoy!

This is once of the many places workers dig up salt.

He truly bears the weight of the family!

"Honey, I shrunk the kids!"

Does something look wrong in this picture?? :)

This is a view of the salt flat from the Island of Incahuasi.

This island is like an oasis in the midst of a salty desert! Long ago 

this island was formed by volcanic rock. 

While hiking through Incahausi, we saw traces of long

ago, like volcanic rock and coral. It was a strangely

beautiful contrast with the shrubbery and cacti! 

The first day of this amazing adventure is passing!