La Paz and Uyuni

Finally finishing my time in South America in Bolvia. The tour has stopped now, and I'm on my lonesome again, which is kinda cool.

This stone faced fellow is from a pre incan civilisation, the Tiwanacu. They were around for thousands of years, and the Incas ripped off alot of their ideas, like the crazy stone work. I like these guys. They had another god named chichipuma or something, who was the god of war. Anyway, its this guy with a puma head holding a decapitated human head.

La Paz is the highest capital city in the world, and its situatated in a basin amongst some big ole mountains. Its pretty spectacular when you first see it.

La Paz at night. The whole city seems to be made of people selling stuff from under tarps. Like Paddy's Markets.

Anyway, I had hardly anytime in Boliva, so I thought I'd smash the Salar De Uyuni, mainly because everyone seems to rave about it. The Salar De Uyuni is a big salt flat, with a few other things to see around the area. It was such a battle getting there, my bus from La Paz arrived two hours early, so I was hanging out in Uyuni, which is without a doubt the world's worst town from three in the morning waiting two from some chick named Sandra to meet me at the bus station. Of course she didn't show up, and I had no other contact details.

Anyway, eventually spoke to enough people to work out that Sandra had a travel agency there, so it turned out ok. She was a lying she devil though, and I offically place a pox on her family.

After all the drama, the tour was amazing. The salt flats are basically a massive lake that has dried up and is just uh, salt now. It looked like snow.

The hotel made of salt.

Some crazy, random cactus growing out in the middle of literally nowhere.

We also passed through a whole lotta desert. Which was cooll, because it looked amazing.

Flamingos on one of the lagoons. The reflections were amazing.

Uh, more desert.
Oh. This rock is really famous because it apparently looks like a tree.

This is an actual lagoon. The red bits are micro organisms, the white bits are some chemical buildup and the blue bits are well, plain old water really. But together, they look amazing.

Close up of the red water.

Our guide / driver, Mario. I liked this guy, he went through bucketloads of coco leaves, and was buzzing around all the time.

Some geysers.

Back in La Paz. These little things are llama fetuses, which people buy from witches at the witches markets. They are suppose to help protect your house.

Real life witch. Seriously. She sells talismans, love potions and use to date Harry Potter.