There are some people in life that really put you off a nation, in a way that someone throwing up in your plate would put you off eating that food for life. Having visited Oz we’ve seen the best it has to offer, however a mysteriously evil hand must have picked up this horrid Occa pair and planted them in our cramped jeep to test our will!
So it’s a good job that the Salt Flats of Uyuni are so bizarre, so utterly unique that it is possible to forget about people and just stare slack jawed at the landscape.
Salt, lots of it
Even if this arid, blindingly white vista eventually drove us a little crazy and I regret that I turned on Faye and even took to stamping on her and squashing her in my hat.
She probably deserved it
Swat!
This 3 day tour took us to the edge of the mountainous Chilean border, where we discovered there was a continuing trade of stolen Toyota Land Cruisers in return for cocaine between the two bitter nations. There is certainly no love lost between Bolivia and Chile, born out of fights over borders that Bolivia always seemed to loose.
The mountainous Chilean border
Our guide, Oscar, gave great insight into the history
of
Blood, Gold and Rain Forest
Our drive through the bleak, desolate Bolivian desert provided time for contemplation wedged in between views unattainable anywhere else on our trip. Where else can you drive into a semi active Volcano crater and jump through plums of steaming air.
The semi active Volcano crater
It really is
something of a tragedy that a country so rich in beauty has been sold so short
by who run it.
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