Uyuni 3-day trip, Bolivia - Day 1

Amazing! Extraordinary! Unbelievable! Spectacular! Awesome! Out of this world! Surreal!!!!

All these adjectives (and many more) can be applied to describe Uyuni in Bolivia and the trip from San Pedro to Uyuni.

This was a 3-day trip on a 4x4 truck, that crossed deserts, blue lagoons, red lagoons, flamingos, volcanoes, salt deserts and much more.

Our group couldn´t be more mixed: 2 amazing and cool italian ladies over their 60's, 1 german engineer, Robert from Catalunya, Juliana, my friend from University, our guide Juan from Bolivi and myself. The official language of our group was a mix of italian, spanish and portuguese, but we managed to communicate pretty well.

Our guide Juan was a quiet and nice little guy who was at the same time our driver and cook... not so good cook though... 

On the first day we took a van from San Pedro to the Bolivian border (which turned out to be a small house in the middle of nowhere) and from there we jumped into the 4x4 for the best 3 days of the trip so far, and probably one of the best trips of my life! 

The group of people turned out to connect extremely well and the landscape... oh the landscape... 

 

The first night we spent in a small little house by the red lagoon, la Laguna Colorada.