What kind of business might you find on a salar? Why, salt harvesting, of course.
Trevor, ready for the sun and salt.
We didn´t need to search much for a flat spot on which to pitch our tent
Frozen eggs can, indeed, still be fried up.
Where´d the rest of me go?
Yes, there are in some locations holes in the salar, and there's water underneath the salt. The average salt thickness is an impressive 12 meters.
We had a whole lot of flat and white.
I think salars might be the only things that can have both lakes and islands. We´re arriving at the isla Incahuasi where we´ll spend the night, and have another surprise...
Futból on the salar! We were invited by the locals of the island to join them for a game of futból to finish off the day, followed by a glass of Coke. We were both amazed at how unfit we could feel trying to run around at 3,760m.
The next morning we accepted a ride from one of the island folk to the next little town in order to gain a day. We stopped on the way to take some sunrise pictures.
The little children of Bolivia have been terribly friendly, cute, and curious. After rolling through this little boy's town and asking about the way, he decided to run ahead of us for as long as he could. He ran much, much further than either of us could have managed.
And, the sand. On arriving in one village I saw a sign saying "We use what we have effeciently, we don't dream about what we might have." I guess they have a lot more sand than rocks or concrete.
