Uyuni to Sucre

After three days in Uyuni I rode to Sucre to learn Spanish. The road was quite bad and many people were in trouble or broken down. I was glad to be on a dirtbike.

Again, around every corner there is something new

Pretty obvious actually

I sure wouldn´t want to live out here…

Thankfully the rain was limited to light showers

Quite strange to see nothing but huts for a while then this

Hooray

Salar de Uyuni

After 7 days in the worlds driest desert plus one riding through the Andes I arrived in Uyuni was glad to freshen up to finally visit the Salar! Being the wet season I chose not to take my moto onto the Salar as salt is obviously very corrosive however once out there discovered it wasn´t very wet at all. Still I was happy to relax in the back of a 4WD for a day with my new Argentinian friends.

First stop was the Uyuni Train Graveyard, quite famous but I didn´t find it all that exciting and there were hundreds of tourists so hard to take a good photo

Afterwards we visited a salt museum, quite boring in my opinion

Then we drove out onto the Salar, the sun was strong and was extremely bright reflecting off the salt, I couldn´t remove my sunglasses for longer than a few seconds.

The infamous piles of salt, I couldn´t understand my tour guide so I have no idea where they come from

Yum, turistas

For lunch we had llama in a Salt Hotel

In the middle of the Salar there is an island covered with Cactuses, it´s called ´Fish Island´however there are no fish. We didn´t visit the volcano in the background unfortunately

They don´t call me Gigantor for nothing!

The Argentinians started passing around ´Mate. The straw was metal and it burned my already sunburned lips (sunburnt from the Atacama).

The areas covered with water were quite surreal

Not quite sure how the Argentinians could resist?