I left you, when we arrived in Uyuni...
In Uyuni we took a tour to visit the salt flakes (the BIGGEST in the world) and that was quite impressive. We were 6 people in a jeep (2 french, 1 danish and 3 dutchies) crossing this immense salt flake during 3 days. Apart from a lot of salt (we even slept in a salt hotel, completely made of salt, including the beds), we saw an island of cactuses, stones in strange forms, lagoons of all kind of colours (purple, yellow, red), lama's (vicuñas, alpacas, lamas) and flamingos. This whole tour was quite an adventure, as we had heard many stories about cars breaking down, but we were lucky as our car only broke down one time.
From the Uyuni tour they dropped us of in San Pedro de Atacama, in Chile.
San Pedro is a little cute village, very touristic and very expensive after Bolivia. In San Pedro we stayed at a youth hostel, meeting quite some Chilean tourists.
We visited the Moon valley, very beautiful and mountainbiked through the region visiting some inka sites on the way.
We didn't stay too long, as most of the sites we already had seen during the uyuni tour. From san pedro we took a nightbus to Arica, from which we wanted to visit the park Putre. It turned out to be quite a hassle to get there, and that the sites would be like what we already had seen.
As we were at the border of Peru...temptation was big and we decided to cross it, going to Arequipa. We visited Arequipa and it's Cañon del Colca, where we got up at 4 o'clock to see condors, and after waiting for hours with other crazy tourists like us....we saw 3 condors, very far away...


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