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| Peter & Jackie Main | profile | all galleries >> World Galleries >> South America >> Bolivia >> Southwest Altiplano | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
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 Ready to leave San Pedro |
 The Bolivian border post |
 The border in the middle of nowhere |
 Brekkie before we set off |
 Is this our transport? |
 No, this is |
 Lonely rocks |
 How do they get there? |
 Incredible Laguna Verde |
 Us at the green lake |
 Algae makes the green colour |
 Salt, borax, calcium at the edges |
 Minor troubles |
 Coloured hills |
 Was Salvador Dali here? |
 Jackie & the coloured hills |
 <<< Incredible desolation ... |
 ... all around ... |
 ... on the high ... |
 ... Bolivian Altiplano >>> |
 Warming our toes |
 Thermals |
 Sol de Manana |
 Bubbling mud |
 Mud bath (not!) |
 Colourful Minerals |
 Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble |
 Ready to pop |
 Laguna Colorada |
 Flamingos on the lake |
 Baby flamingos |
 Walkabout |
 More flamingos |
 Home for the night |
 Tiny church |
 Above the rest stop |
 Arbol de Piedra |
 (Tree of Stone) |
 Wind sculpted rocks |
 Us |
 <<< A vista ... |
 ... of ... |
 ... Laguna Honda >>> |
 Photo break |
 Borax at the lake edge |
 Laguna Hedionda |
 Lots of flamingos |
 Just chillin' |
 Flamingos... |
 ...constantly... |
 ...looking... |
 ...for food |
 Volcan Ollague |
 Puffing smoke (it's still active) |
 Lunch stop |
 Chiguana military post |
 Atulcha Village |
 Small stone church |
 Looking out to the salar |
 Oven |
 New salt hotel |
 Sunset through the window |
 Salt bricks |
 Where mummies were buried |
 Mummies |
 Been here for hundreds of years |
 Baby mummy in burial pot |
 Around Atulcha |
 Roof in our adobe house |
 Cheers |
 Llama skins protecting the tyres from the sun |
 A little friend |
 Salar de Uyuni |
 The largest salt lake in the world |
 Mad Scottish woman |
 Salt bricks |
 Our jeep in the middle of nowhere |
 Isla de Pescadores |
 Originally known as Incahuasi (Inca House) |
 Salt Bay |
 A 10-ha island in the salt lake |
 Remko & Tessa |
 Jackie |
 Bruce & Cara |
 Cacti & salt |
 Huge cacti |
 Some are 12m tall |
 They grow 1cm a year - they are really old |
 Peter |
 Vizcacha (related to the chinchilla) |
 Cacti "forest" |
 Salt Hotel (Playa Blanca) |
 Salt dining room |
 Salt lobby |
 Salt llama sculptures |
 Salt bed & alpacha covers |
 Upside down label ! |
 Bolivian flag |
 The "Ojos de Sal" (eyes of salt) |
 Underground rivers come to the surface |
 Resevoir Dogs? |
 Locals scrape up salt into mounds |
 Where's Jackie? |
 Mirage |
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