Mid day we were picked up to start our journey through the Uyuni Salt Flats!
Our first stop was at the railway graveyard where there are many old trains who were left there after Bolivia stopped exporting salt to chile. Now all the trains are used as a playground for the local kids! You can see swings and people can go in and out of the trains and to the top... one of the coolest playgrounds i've seen!
Then we kept moving towards the salt flats but first we stopped at a place where they process salt. a man who used to work on the salt flats showed us the whole process on how they treat salt and even how they bag it!
We finally made it to the salt flats and it was really cool to see little mountains of salt in the middle of this big desert of salt. The most impressive part was to see the natural formation of hexagon shapes out of salt!
We arrived to the Dakar sign and took a group picture. A funny fact about Dakar (an off-road rally race) is that it is happening in 2015 but somehow the designing and branding team messed up their dates and everything says "Dakar 2014" instead of 2015 when the event is actually happening! So all over Bolivia you see merchandise with the wrong date!
We kept driving towards our hotel and the sunset was simply beautiful! The colors were stunning and the salt flats looked even prettier than earlier.
We finally arrived to our hotel right before dark. The day before we had a raffle for people to stay in a "nicer" room and one of the people who won it didn't want it so I jumped to the opportunity and grabbed the shared updated room! The others had a 6 bed multi shared room made of out salt bricks.
That night we had Michelle's birthday celebration. Earlier in the day, Darryl- the guide, had gotten literally THE LAST cake in all of uyuni (because of the strike restaurants and stores had ran out of supplies and none of the bakeries had cakes left) so we got to sing her happy birthday and made her bite the cake which of course resulted in Daryl pushing Michelle's face on the cake- hilarious!
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