We started out early in the morning, by minibus up to the Andes and the bolivian border. There we switched to jeeps after some 5 minutes of border formalities and stamping of passports. From the first meter the change was very notable as the tarmac turned into rocks and mud and it became obvious why we had left the minibuses. After 20 minutes of bumpy jeepride we reached our first stop was "the white lagoon".
After having seen the marvelous view and taken some photos we continued past the "green" and "red" lagoons, full of flamingos and surrounded by peculiar rock formations. We tried to get close to the flamingos but they kept running away, thus they could be seen as a general pinkish mass, but there were so many of them that the effect was quite impressive!
That night we stayed in a little village called "Villamar" ("Seavillage"), funny name for being in the middle of the dessert, but they clamed that there was river there during rainy season and I guess that for bolivians (who are landlocked since the war opf 1870) that is enough!!
The next morning we went to see the "Llama paradise" where we saw plenty of lamas and a valley deserving the name!
We continued through some other small villages, one of which looked like a classic western town, complete with a railroad from the ninetenth century, a cementary and several abandoned houses!
From there we continued to the brink of the saltflat, where we stayed overnight in a hostel that actually had hot water and a great view of the tremendous flat!
9 comments:
lama = speciale dedicace a Pouic
Flamingo = speciale dedicace pour le lecteur a identites multiples
snälla ta inte tropicana juice till hemma.
And I heard south america is full of guinea pigs, I want pictures of guinea pigs.
And you didn't use my useful advice about how to make a better map. i'm disappointed.
Tu as vérifié le "quand lama pas content, lui toujours faire comme ça" ?
Lama, ou llama ? (cf tête de post)
como se llama lama en espanol???
je me tais. j'aurais bien voulu vous voir courrir après les flamingos !!
Yannick c'était comment cette première journée au taf?
actually, I did make some changes on the map.... But linking to all the articles take time, I'll keep it for later. And I dont really feel like changing the html code of my map every second day.... zoom yourself you lazy Magnus :-)
pour le lama pas content, je voulais prendre une photo de Gustav se faisant cracher dessus, mais il n'a pas voulu. (par contre, c'est vrai que les lamas crachent...)
Hi,
No fun, Yannick already asked THE question, and still no answer...
Best regards Jean-Yves
Haha :)
Merci pour la photo de lama :-)
c'est vrai c'est pas drôle, pas de réponse... ils glandent vraiment là-bas, même pas fichus de répondre aux questions !
1e journée éprouvante... on simule des accidents qui ne se produiront jamais sur des réacteurs qui n'existent pas encore, effort intellectuel intense !
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