So final day of the salt flats tour involved getting up at 4.30am so we could be there to see sunrise.
The drive up to the spot where we would watch sunrise was pretty mesmerising. Getting up that early was definitely worth it.
We had really long shadows!
These are the people we tended to be in convoy with:
Front: Ann-Marie, Sally, Micheal
After sunrise, we went to Isla de Incahuasi, or Cactus Island, an outcrop of land in the middle of the salt flat where loads of cacti grow.
Then we had breakfast before being driven to a spot to take cool photos!
We also did a cool video but it was on the other Paul's camera so we need him to get decent internet so he can share it with us!
There was so much more we could've done, but we had to go after a picture with Juan Carlos and Patricia (can you tell who got up the earliest?)
After lunch, we visited the train cemetery in Uyuni.
Some people ended their tour in Uyuni. Paul and I went back to Tupiza with Juan Carlos and Patricia. Milton and the Irish friends also headed back to Tupiza. En route, the drivers stopped at a small building in the middle of nowhere, we're told to perform a ritual to protect drivers. We don't know what it involved, but after 20 minutes in the little hut, they came out smelling of cigarettes and with their cheeks bulging with coca leaves!
On the way back to Tupiza, Juan Carlos stopped to pick up two groups of hitchhikers - the towns are so remote that this seems to be a regular mode of transport. The first group was three school kids either on their way home or on their way to school. Then he picked up a man and a woman who got dropped off just before Tupiza and in Tupiza itself.
