Uyuni, Bolivia

(orig) (info) At the cementario de trenes outside of Uyuni. It's worth reading the graphitti on the train	(orig) (info) Another dead train	(orig) (info) Our ride for the next four days. It's only a few years younger than me.
(orig) (info) The edge of the salar. The hills of salt are being dried. They'll soon be transported to the nearby village of Colchani, where they'll get ground up, iodized, and put in 1kg bags.	(orig) (info) Me and Arnt, in the Salar	(orig) (info) Another one
(orig) (info) It's a weird place, the salar. Hard to judge size or distance.	(orig) (info) Another weather station . . .	(orig) (info) One of the islands in the middle of the salar
(orig) (info) More island shots	(orig) (info) This cactus grows at a rate of about 1cm / yr	(orig) (info) Another shot of the island and the salar
(orig) (info) This bird was a good, long way from anything.	(orig) (info) In flight, far from home	(orig) (info) Shades of grey, on the salar
(orig) (info) More cacti, on the island	(orig) (info) One of the neat things was that all the rock had a coating of calcium deposits, from when the water that was once present evaporated	(orig) (info) One of several pre-incan mummies, in their natural setting on the edge of the salar
(orig) (info) Another mummy	(orig) (info) A baby was found in this pot. The picture didn't come out so clearly.	(orig) (info) Sunset over the Salar
(orig) (info) sunset 2	(orig) (info) South of the Salar the landscape was composed of desert scenes and volcanos	(orig) (info) More volcanos
(orig) (info) Llamas!	(orig) (info) Another volcano. Can't, for the life of me, remember the names	(orig) (info) Brilliant green in the desert
(orig) (info) Flamingos in one of the lagunas	(orig) (info) flamingos	(orig) (info) I believe that these are all "James" flamingos
(orig) (info) Llamas on the lakeshore	(orig) (info) little llama	(orig) (info) 40
(orig) (info) A duck of some sort...?	(orig) (info) Still more flamingos. I took lots of pictures of them. Not exactly what you think of when you think Andean birds, no?	(orig) (info) taking off
(orig) (info) Bone dry. Not so much as a plant	(orig) (info) Dry land. Snowy mountains.	(orig) (info) wind sculpture
(orig) (info) More wind-carved rocks	(orig) (info) The famed "Arbol de Piedra" with it's typical company -- jeep-loads of tourists like me!	(orig) (info) The E in a circle means "Parking".
(orig) (info) arbol de piedra	(orig) (info) An ex fox.	(orig) (info) laguna colorada
(orig) (info) laguna colorada	(orig) (info) This is the result of a man-made perforation in the ground. It's pretty impressive.	(orig) (info) The geysers in the morning
(orig) (info) perforation	(orig) (info) steamy sunrise	(orig) (info) A big mudpot. Back to MacBeth and the witches
(orig) (info) Laguna verde and Volcan Licancabur	(orig) (info) The bolivian altiplano: ice, llamas, grass, desert, and mountains	(orig) (info) The altiplano in a glance.
(orig) (info) andean gulls	(orig) (info) wind sculpture	(orig) (info) It's sort of like watch the clouds... everyone sees something; no one sees the same thing.
(orig) (info) This is the back side of the sign denoting the entrance to the "Villa Militar" in Uyuni. Roughly, "The motherland should live, for that we must die."