I’m writing this blog while we are on our way from Jujuy to Buenos Aires on a 23 hour bus ride. It’s dark and bumpy and someone went number 2 in the number 1 only toilet. Needless to say we have a long ride ahead of us. Our next stop after Potosi was basically the number one tourist trap in Bolivia: the 3 day Bolivian salt flats tour. Ask any gringo that has been to Bolivia and they’ll tell you to do the salt flats tour. “It’s just something you can’t miss,” they’ll say. Well, it was pretty cool but the long hours spent bouncing down a road with our knees touching our chests isn’t something we’d recommend for everyone. If the trip wasn’t so darn cheap we probably would have avoided it but we did luck out with our group. A couple of girls from Germany who just finished some volunteer work and a couple from Belgium who is about 2 months shy of completing a round-the-world journey of their own. We had a blast with them playing Uno, yatzee and watching our guide Freddy try to fix a problem with the jeep’s right rear brake on the side of the dirt in the desert. The tours depart Uyuni every day and travel to the Salt flats, desert and through the high Andean plains where there are a bunch of cool lakes. The less expensive tours are done with a Spanish speaking guide only so we didn’t get much info out of it. One thing we did learn was that 3 days in a cramped jeep is hard on the ass. Enjoy the pictures and a short blog post for once.
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