Uyuni Meenie Miney Mo

We traveled from Sucre to Uyuni.

The Uyuni trip included a 3 day 2 night 4x4 jeep and adventures through the Southern Bolivia Salt Flats!

Our stay in the atual town of Uyuni included eating at a retaurant called Minutemen which was inside a hotel. This was owned and managed by a man from Boston and the pizza (their main attraction as a pizzaria) was incredible. We were in Uyuni for 2 days and managed to eat dinner breakfast and again another dinner at Minutemen.

Our 3 day Uyuni tour started with endless views of white salt flats The fun thing to do here is play with perspective ...I mean ....fight off dinosaurs!



We spent time at Incahuasi where there was an island full of cactus and neat rock formations.

We stayed in a SALT HOTEL in San Pedro. Salt on the floor. tables and chairs walls and beds made of salt!

Day 2 of our Uyuni tour we saw rock formations, ALL different color lagoons FULL of FLAMINGOS!! in the middle of nowhere! Very beautiful!

We also saw different animals: bicuñas...look like deer. little rabbits with squirrel tails.

Saw a rock formation called Arbol del Piedra which is supposed to be a rock or stone that looks like a tree.

DAY 3 We saw geisers and steams coming our of the ground and pools of boiling sulfurs..... we were able to stop in a hot thermal pool which was INCREDIBLE because it was FREEZING. this day and the night before in combination wiht the altitude was by far the coldest. minus below zero.

The end of our tour ended in San Pedro de Atacama which is in Chile.
The problem with this is that when you arrive here you have to immediately schedule a bus out because the buses leaving Chile to get to Salta Argentina only run on Sundays Tuewsdays and Fridays. We were told by 5 different tour operators in Uyuni that since we arrive on a MOnday we would have time to get tickets for the Tuesday bus. Thus, getting us our of this tiny tourist town in Chile. We want to go to Chile but this particular town is tourist central and VERY extensive with VERY few options because its such a small town. I´m glad we got to see it ... it had a small plaza and a street that reminded Kevin and I of Old Town, San Diego.

We stayed at a Hostel called Florida and it was very basic. it was fine for one night.
We met a very nice group of people who literally said meet us at this corner at 3pm to find a way to get to Salta. Because at this point we discovered the buses WERE SOLD OOUUTT!!! we couldnt afford to spend time here with not much to do or see for a price. Eventually from 2pm to 7pm we arranged a private vehicle to drive us to Salta, Argentina. the next morning.
This was much more expensive but in the long run it was worth it. We ended us getting driveers who treated the transport as a tour and stopped and let us take pictures of the spectaculat scenery as we drove from Chile to Argentina.

Once we arrived to Salta I was sooo pleasantly surprised by how neat this city was. I didnt realize it was such a large city.

The next few days (We stayed in Salta for 4 days) we enjoyed waling around through the heat in the brightly lit center square, We took a gondola ride up a mountain and enjoyed the waterfalls at the top. We had ice cream everyday and met up with a couple we've been running into since CUSCO, a month ago. They were at our hostel!! It was nice to catch up with them and we are going to try to meet up in Buenos Aires or Mendoza, Argentina.

Another nice thing about Salta is there are decent grocery stores again so we started back up with cooking breakfast lunch and dinner. cooking sometimes entails putting together a sandwich but this allowed us to save money!

In Salta I was introduced to a variety of Pomelo soda which is Grapefruit. Unlike Squirt soda its a bit more natural (as natural as a soda can be) with a strong grapefruit tast that as super refreshing for this 100 farehnheit degree weather! its so hot here. Reminds me of home but I do miss the beach!

So I have been in contact with the Family I have in Argentina. Imagine that!
My grandmothers siblings have children and live in Resistencia and Chaco not too far from Salta Argentina and on our way to Iguacu Falls!! I am excited to see and MEET them!!! Our bus leaves in a few hours at 4pm and we arrive at 5am tomorrow morning!