we got up early to drive to salar de uyuni, which is a salt flat , a leftover from a prehistoric lake minchin. when we got to the salar it was raining like crazy, which meant that the salar was like a huge lake or sea. nothing to do with a magic landscape where the ground reflects the sky and you can see salty hexagons. you should have seen our faces... we were all close to crying thinking that we wouldn t be able to see the magic thing so long waited for. but then we drove closer to the centre of the salar, the sun came out and the water got absorbed by the salty ground and the perfect refelection of the sky and clouds appeared. we were so craizily happy and started running around barefoot and taking more and more silly photos. we were all 5 years old agian :) we got our true salar experience :)
our group is really cool and the night before we were joking that we are all in a kind of limbo, not really knowing what to do with our lives, so it seems that south america is the place to come and think what to do with yourselves. so we keep thinking:)
once we got to uyuni , it turned out that the only atm in town is broken and it would be fixed manana. it turned our later that the same answer had been given for the past feew days.... but we managed to got some money from the bank place (kind of) and sam and paula invited us for drinks so all finished well. showers in uyuni imited to 3-minutes-standing in a lukewarm water.
we spent a day wandering around markets and street sellers where all ladies wear two long black plaits and fancy hats and huge coulourful skirts. the are shier here and i feel shy to take photos. they dont seem to enjoy being captured on the memory cards. from a lady at the market we buy some roasted (or maybe dried) beans which i think is like a snack here and she tells us that we have very nice teeth at the same time showing here well used jaw . tomorrow wa are going to potosi.
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