If you’re seeing things… in your neighbourhood… who ya gonna call?04-Sep-2009 14:26, Canon Canon EOS 400D DIGIT, 10.0, 28.0mm, 0.004 sec, ISO 400
Potosi, or as we fondly recall the city that likes to punch you in the head, is the highest city of its size in the world at 4,070m. It is also dominated by Cerro Rico, the location of a working silver mine. It had been highly recommended by other travellers and a necessarily brief stop on the way north from Uyuni. It was also hopefully going to be a good opportunity to satisfy some pyromaniac tendencies by blowing up TNT. We’d even heard that our intended hostel had the most awesome book exchange known to Bolivia, which would be welcome after Lynette had to Ruth Rendell for a bus trip or two. But did we manage to explode any dynamite? Would we gain access to the fabled book exchange? And why did Potosi seem to dislike us so much?
It was so big, Steve couldn’t use his mouth and squeeze at the same time.31-Aug-2009 15:25, FUJIFILM FinePix F40fd , 6.4, 8.0mm, 0.002 sec, ISO 100
The Salar de Uyuni are the largest salt flats in the world and one of the more famous tourist spots of Bolivia, although we weren’t completely sure why. We knew there would be lots of salt involved, and from the odd photo we were quite convinced the sights we’d see would be on the main fairly flat. Our ignorance and the fact we’d arranged to do the tour with our Latvian friends Martins and Dagmara made the anticipated trip all the more potentially exciting. But if all we were going to see was a lot of flat, white salt then I wasn’t sure we were going to do for the other seventy one hours of the three day trip. So was it as potentially boring as we’d feared? What’s this about volcanoes and multi-coloured lakes? Just what exactly is borax?
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