Once you have frozen for a few weeks, you are happy to finally come to San Pedro de Atacama. The city is at "only" 2400 meters, so deep was not since Arequipa. It is located at the north end of the Atacama Basin, also a damn dead, salty, dry place, though not as huge as the Salar de Uyuni. Wonderful you can see ...
The highlight of our tour was the visit to the largest salt desert on this planet, Salar de Uyuni. One sunset, one night and one sunrise plus half a day we were allowed to spend on, in and over the meter-thick salt layer. Approximately 140x110 km, the area is large, estimated 10 billion tons of salt are still around. Both the sunsets and sunrise were the moon ...
Yes, the madness. Four days by jeep over sand and stone through Bolivia's southwest! The result: pictures, pictures, pictures (and a most impressed Matthias). This time a lot more pictures than usual, but there was also a lot to watch (and to freeze up there: at night up to -15 degrees ... and heaters are not here!)! What was to be seen (halfway chronologically ...