BOLIVIA’S WESTERN LAGUNAS ROUTE
DAY 1 23 November. Setting off in convoy with Alex and Eric in their van and Manuel on his motorbike, we rolled West from Uyuni onto a long dirt road that would carry us across one of the most surreal landscapes in South America. The higher we drove, the more the world shifted — from […]
UYUNI AND THE SALAR
Uyuni is a tough, wind-scoured town perched at 3,656 metres on Bolivia’s altiplano — part railway outpost, part gateway to the desert. Founded in 1889 as a strategic junction linking Andean mines with Chilean ports, it grew around the minerals that passed through and the workers who hauled them. Its broad streets, concrete buildings, and […]