Rough notes, captions and scenes;
From Salar de Uyuni
On board the chicken bus: The large crack is what happened when the last lot of tourists nearly went through the windscreen. At least our bus driver doesn't appear drunk... Nothing particularly eventful happens on our bus ride from La Paz to Oruro, and for the price of AU$2.50, I really can't complain.
Hell, I can't even get from North Melbourne to the city on the tram for that sort of price....
He likes coffee;
She likes tea;
Who wants milk, it's from a donkey..?
There's a woman standing with a donkey when the bus pulls up in Oruro. She pulls out a cup and starts milking the donkey's teat, for a man who feels like having a little donkey refreshment...
Neither N. or I have an appetite for donkey milk, but we do for fried chicken and chips and free wifi.....
...followed by creamed jellies in the park.
Walking the streets & having a yarn: The street vendors sell yarn that look amazingly vibrant in the soft grey light of dusk. I wonder when washed would the water run the colours of the rainbow?
Please mind the gap: The train in Boliva reminds me of the Circle Line in London. They're slow and stop randomly for no apparent reason.
They show a Bollywood movie ("My Name is Khan") on board the train. The movie is about a Muslim Rain Man/Forrest Gump and is dubbed over in Spanish. It all seems a little random to me.
The straw-like bushes found everywhere along the way to the salt plains would be the worst thing to land on if you were to trip and fall down from a volcano or geyser. They look deceptively soft but are extremely prickly. These bushes must be a distant cousin of the porcupine.
There is cactus island randomly in the middle of the salt plains. Again, this is definitely not the place to lose your footing...
One mega large cactus tells all the tourists to f-off.
You'll see enough vicunas, lagoons and volcanoes within a four day period that you'd never want to get excited about....another vicuna, lagoon or volcano again. (I'm unsure how the tour guides keep up their enthusiasm when pointing out every single vicuna and flamingo they see...)
Pringles cost AU$6.50 in a store on the edge of the salt plains
Just thought you'd like to know......
Dulce de leche is thick and sticky and tastes of extremely sweet caramel.
All the boys love smack down candy
Car trouble starts about 30 minutes away from Uyuni.
Had it been before we got to Salar de Uyuni, the tour would have taken on a very different tone....
A traveller's poem:
The sun is strong
and the wind is cold,
There's fine brown silt collecting in people's clothes.
Full of salt and dry is the air,
My mouth is parched
but I just don't care;
The salt plains expand as far as my eyes can see
I am amaze of beautiful this world can be.
My mouth is parched
but I just don't care;
The salt plains expand as far as my eyes can see
I am amaze of beautiful this world can be.
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