Toured the salt flats today. It was amazing. You essentially drive out into the middle of what looks like snow, but is much rougher on the feet and not cold. There were parts with water over the salt that reflected the sky so much it would be easy to confuse which way was up and which was down…I’m surprised more people didn’t get lost out here in the past. Our driver got us to the island with cactus on it (Fish Island, sort of) without any real landmarks to follow, he just drove keeping the two mountain ranges on either side until he could see the island – a couple hours of driving. We climbed over the mountain while our driver set up a picnic lunch which they topped off with a bottle of wine to celebrate our anniversary. We walked barefoot on the salt, which unlike the Queens salt in BVI, was very clean and stretched as far as the eye could see. We unfortunately are not staying in a salt hotel, but maybe next time. A rain storm was rolling in as we headed back making for some fabulous pictures, but might make for a rough night for those who are staying in the salt hotels and traveling tomorrow – driving on the salt is much slower (under 100m/hr) when it is under water and sometimes, when there is a lot of rain they can’t drive across it at all…we got lucky with a beautiful day. Dinner was at a pizza place, but was good. Then we went to a pub – The Sperm – which was filled with tourists and we had a good time having a drink and talking with a guy from Canada and a guy from Switzerland. They have a challenge in the pub to see how fast you can take 10 shots, the record is 36 seconds, but I can imagine at this altitude, that really has to hurt the next morning.
We ran back to our hotel in the rain finishing off an anniversary we will never forget.
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