Salar de Uyuni-Day 2: We're Not In Kansas Anymore

The second day was a beautiful follow up to the first. Laura and I got to ride up front with our tranquilo tour guide while we rose to more than 4000m above sea level.

The day consisted of drive, stop, get out, walk around, use the natural bathroom, take pictures, get back in the van, drive some more. But honestly, we weren´t bored for a second. We saw lagoons in all shades and colors, with flamingo sprinkled shores, Vicuñas (relative of the Llama) playing in the hills, one volcano after another and a lot of beautiful nothingness.

The nicely paved road was about 7000km east of us. The path (which our driver was inventing) was strewn with boulders and bumpy enough to bring back childhood memories of unstable Rocky Point amusement park rides. Rocky would be one word to describe it.

One of the most interesting things we saw that day was a gigantic rock formation in the shape of a tree. How did that get in the middle of this desert?

Our second hotel was "basic" as our guide told us, no shower, no hot water, no electricity, dorm style rooms and it was cold enough to produce flashbacks of our Syracuse and Vermont days.

We survived the blustery evening with a stroll around the Laguna Colorada (we did not take a picture of this lagoon, we stole our blog´s last picture :) and an informative, but dull peek at the mating habits of llamas. At first, we could have sworn they were just cuddling to survive the cold (we thought they had the right idea... but wait...:) Anything was better than sitting in our Antarctic-like room.

At night we ate terribly disappointing spaghetti (Dad, where are you!?!?) and drank wine with some talkative Argentinians. Although freezing, we took a moment to view the clear and mystifying sky before going to bed. The Milky Way had never looked so bright.