Day Three

Our third day was an early one as we were awoken at 4:30 am and left by 5.  We were grumbling and complaining until we arrived at the local geysers (5000m elevation) which are only visible in the morning due to the cold morning air.  Not only were the geysers huge and extremely impressive but we were allowed to walk up to and through them freely, one of the many things we have experienced on this trip that just wouldn’t fly back home or at least not without signing an extensive waver.

To escape the cold morning desert air we were taken to a natural hot spring where we soaked while our breakfast was being prepared.  After breakfast the remainder of our day was mostly spent getting back to the town of Uyuni with a quick stop at the Chilean boarder to drop off some travellers.  The drive was already long but seemed longer with our guide’s Bolivian music which felt like we were listening to the same song for three hours straight.  We kept asking if we could plug-in our ipods but he said our music would put him to sleep, considering the options we sat quietly in the back while the same track continued to play.

We arrived in Uyuni in the middle of a massive dust storm which made the town seem even less attractive than before.  And while the three day trip was absolutely amazing we b-lined it to the local bus offices to buy the next ticket out of there, 6 am the next morning.  We ate with some of our fellow travellers at a great little pizza place run by an American Expat (we figure he’s a little loopy to choose Uyuni as a dream location, but whatever floats you boat) and after enjoying a hot shower we crashed before 9pm.