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37 viewsPassing Potosi, highest city in the world.
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34 viewsThe scenery to Uyuni was definitely worth keeping an eye out the window.
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34 viewsAn unknown adobe village is camoflauged with the earth.
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37 viewsSunsets are one of the best things here in Uyuni. It's flat like home (so you get the grand vistas) but with distant hills and much closer clouds due to the altitude.
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36 viewsFirst stop on the tour was the train cemetery, a yard full of decrepit trains that no longer carry silver and other minerals to Chile.
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30 viewsWhy not graffiti Newton's law of gravity here?
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32 viewsLooking ahead as I drive the derelict train one last time, thrilling onlookers and enthusiasts everywhere.
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34 viewsOne more shot on the train.
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34 viewsI decided then and there that I'd been neglecting my upper body too long.
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33 viewsThe salt plains in the distance act as a mirror making these mountains almost float above the horizon.
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35 viewsWe stopped in a small village on the eastern edge of Salar to look at salt handicrafts and statues.
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29 viewsWho wants a salty llama?
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31 viewsOur Salar de Uyuni group was great fun.
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35 viewsPiles of salt line the edge of the salt flats, some for use in buildings and sculptures and others for food.
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31 viewsHere we are again, kings and queens of our hills.
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36 viewsBubbling water at the Ojos del Salar.
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30 viewsMore bubbling salt eyes and a white plain stretching to almost forever.
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31 viewsOur group, clockwise: Amin, Rutger, Vanina, Juan Pablo, and Paola from Tunisia, Holland, Argentina, and Bolivia.
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30 viewsThis old salt hotel is now a 'museum'
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33 viewsPass the salt: A place to eat.
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