Bolivian antiplano

On Monday I went out of hotel turned right and first lady convinced me to check her tours. Everything looked good and I asked her to let me check the reviews on trip advisor. Those looked good. I asked for a discount, got some and in the end paid 720 bol (105 usd, 2500 czk) for 3 days trip. Company was called Hodaka. The tour started just in 3 hours. We jumped into Land Cruiser in 6 people plus driver who was our guide and was taking care of us altogether. I paired with Sandra from Mexico as she was also traveling on her own. One couple was vegetarian so more meat for us :-) First we went to train cemetery. Quite fancy place reminding me Mad Max. Then we went to see salt mine which wasn't more than couple of guys with shovel taking the salt from the "lake" and filling truck. We did some funny photos on salt lake and went for great lunch afterwards. Couple more funny photos and we moved to Isla de Pescado. Incredible island in the middle of the salt lake. Later we got a great dinner again and relatively good accommodation for what you can get in middle of nowhere. It was actually meant to be salt hotel with salt all over the floor with basic seating from stones.

Next day we went to couple of more sightseeing spots. We saw death village, couple of lagoons with flamingos, some volcanos and volcano stone formations. In general the nature was very beautiful and untouched. But you could still see some people walking across the desert. Our driver was one of the fastest, reminding me Dakar rally ;-) Unsurprisingly we had a small issue with a car, but fixed fast. After all that we arrived to our very basic accommodation. Snowflakes started to fall, we waited for dinner inside and went sleep quite soon to prepare for early morning next day. Temperatures were under zero.

On Wednesday we woke up at 4 to catch geysers for sunrise. We further passed hot springs. But nobody from out group was willing to enter. I got cold overnight and the springs were only 30C and it was still early morning. We saw beautiful free and white lagoons and finally reached Chilean border. Few from our group left us and we turned back to Uyuni. The highest point I noted close to the geysers was 4940m and it was still flat around.