Potosi and Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

After climbing down from the summit of Hayuna Potosi I took the night bus to the silver city of Potosi. When my bus got in I took a cab to the town plaza and found a mine tour company that was run by ex-miners and signed up for the 8:30 half day tour. The tour took me up to the miners market and I bought gifts of Coca and Dinamite for some of the guys we would see under ground. We then entered the mountain and walked hunched over in dark tunnels for 3 km over the span of 3 hrs. A great experience, but I don't envy the workers one bit. 

I then took the 4 hr bus to Uyuni for my tour of the Salt flats and surrounding desert. The first day was spent in the salt admierig the vast space and taking perspective picture. That night we stayed in a hotel in a remote part of the desert that was made of salt from the flats. 

Day 2 we left the salt and explored all the crazy features of the desert. We saw lakes of blue, green, red and white, rock figures that looked like trees and faces and many other crazy scapes. That night we staied in a hostel that was very basic and cold and we only got electricity for and hour. 

The last day we set out into the freezing morning at 5 am to see the thermal geisers by sun rise and soak in the thermal baths. We then started the 500km drive back to Uyuni through the desert. Along the way we stopped at a huge canyon and volcanic rocks that looked like a ruined city and had lunch beside a lake. 

When we got back to Uyuni I hopped on a bus bound for the Bolivia/Argentina border and by the next afternoon I had crossed the border and was in Salta, Argentina out of the altitude and in the 85 degree sunshine.