Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Bolivia - day 3

On the third day, we went to the Salar... Unfortunately, we did not have time to make it to the salar itself for the sunrise (we missed it by about 5 min due to the guide and a slowly-packing person) so we had to stop slightly before. It was still amazing.
The salar de Uyuni is about as big as one third of Belgium... Despite being also flat, there is still a major difference. The salar is all made of (white) salt. A big jeep is therefore needed for all displacements on the salar.
Basically, the salar looks like a sea (or a frozen Swedish archipelago). Gustav was even tempted to check the thickness of the ice layer before stepping. Just like in the archipelago, there are islands as well. On the fisher's island, one can see cactus measuring from a meter to about 12 meters...

And indeed, we spent about two hours taking stupid pictures with the white background...


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16 comments:

Grégoire said...

The two hours were worth it ! Glad that for the first time I and not dad, am the first to comment !

VICTORY !

Anonymous said...

Hi,
Very nice pictures indeed !...
And.... congratulations Grégoire...
Best regards Jean-Yves

Pierre said...

Je suis pour la paix dans les familles...

Anonymous said...

pierre, tu es un artiste, je l'ai toujours su!

Anonymous said...

jajajajaja those pictures are useless. But when traveling for so long I bet it's good to feel useless sometimes jajajajajajjajajjajaj

Yannick said...

Complètement irréel les deux cactus dans la grotte ... splendide !

Et l'homme cactus, ça fait comme un montage photo mal fait sauf que c'est une vraie photo, belle prouesse ! Mais le cadre aide beaucoup.

Quelle altitude ici ? Il y a de la glace ET du sel ? Ou du sel gelé ?

Continue à ce rythme pour les photos !

löffis said...

Looks like you have a great time. Did you take a swim in the hot springs?

Pierre said...

no ice during the day... only salt!

premiere intervention de Yannick, ca fait plaisir :-)

I did take a swim in the hot springs, but Gustav did not have his swimming suit, so he passed on that one...

Pouic said...

Les prises de vue sont bien marrantes :)
Je me demande combien de temps vous avez passé à faire toutes ces photos ;-)

Anonymous said...

Yes, very inventive photography! Worth spending 2 hours watching :-) We must try your tricks on ice or snow this winter. Have you seen all four kinds of camelids? Can you tell the difference?

Anonymous said...

Hi,
Sophie arrived safely in La Valette, she says hi to to her kind brother...
Best regards Jean-Yves

Julyan said...

Mes 2 photos préférées: celles où Pierre fait des pompes, je te reconnais bien là. Avec Gustav sur le dos, facile... il manque juste la fudge...

Yannick said...

Julyan : des pompes faciles avec cette inclinaison quand même...
JY : bonjour à Hélène la néo-maltaise !
Pierre : first but not last... least, peut-être..., feast, je crois que c'est fist plutôt... autocraquage...

Pierre said...

C'est Sophie la neo maltaise... moins 10 pour cette grave erreur :-)

Julyan said...

Pour l'erreur Pierre, dis-lui LE fudge ça lui fait plus mal !

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