The train graveyard at Uyuni where we started our journey!
All aboard!
On the edge of the salt flats - staying in a house made of salt, where all the furniture was also made of salt.
Storms threatening on the edge of the salt-flat.
Sunset at our accomodation
The place where you have to ask is that snow or salt on those distant mountains?
Dougal and Hazel setting out for the salt flats
Sweeping beams of light - it was nice to start under the cover of cloud
Roads on the salt-flats
Bike-packing on the vast salt plains - it might be flat but we had a long way to go for a sheltered camp.
Action shot of Dougal mounting his bike!
Admiring the holes in the salt - with beautifully reflective water
Amazingly reflective - and also you wouldn't want to put your front tyre in one unexpectedly
Surface of the salt-flat
And then islands appear...
This sort of landscape lends itself so well to black and white
Amazing how the salt has dried into hexagons!
On the road!
Dougal is stoked in full sungear!
Textures of a cactus
Texture of a catus without its spines
Incahuasi Island - what a view!
Admiring the beauty of this unique landscape
Peering out of the volcano
We did find some water near our camp for the night - but obviously it was undrinkable!
The Cacti of Incahuasi Island
Flicking the campervans out of sight!
What a spectacular sunset
Just a magical place
Ok I guess we'll let the campervan stay and enjoy it too!
This is the last one... I promise
So many more distant island and mountains!
Cacti flowers in the pre-dawn light!
Sunrise with a twig.
I love the foreground island mimicking the more distant mountains!
Off-roading it across the salt-flats - it might not look that different to the roads, but the texture is notable!
After two days biking across the salt-flats, looking forward to the next stage in the mountains.
Salt-pool on the edge of the flats
Guanacos
Biking towards the volcanos where we will spend the next several days
Mirages were everywhere out there - but this was the only really good photo that I ended up with.
Evening view from the derelict railway station where we camped on our first night.
Texture of a much small salt flat we encountered while heading for the mountains
So beautifully crinkled
Reaching the volcanoes - and beautiful skies
Dougal and Hazel heading up into the volcanoes
And there were flamingoes!
Many flamingoes
Lucky to capture them in flight
The colouring of flamingoes is directly affected by their feeding - the one in front is a relatively new fledgling and is still working on his colours
Flamingoes taking flight
Flamingoes feeding
A flamingo and his reflection!
Some beautiful pink colours on display
Landscape of flamingoes
Even more flamingoes
Flamingo feeding
Graceful flamingo
One flamingo
Two flamingo
Three flamingo
Drip!
Flamingo and a drip!
So many perfect flamingoes
Hazel admiring a lake of Flamingos and the volcanoes
Beautiful lake
A different perspective on the same beautiful lake
Beautiful colours of the hills!
Viscacha!
What an epic curly tail!
Viscacha joining Hazel and dougal for lunch
Lizard - looks like he might be regrowing his tail
Viscacha
Look at his beautiful whiskers!
What a cutie!
Viscacha curling his tail in his natural environment on a cliff!
Árbol de Piedra - the stone tree!
Hazel in the sun and Dougal in the shade around the stone tree!
A great saltberg!
Evening light on the mountains!
Just a spectacular sunset to be biking around trying to find somewhere both legal and not too windy to camp - after all the lodges in the town were full - and wouldn't even let us sleep on the floor, or have dinner...
Ice and hotsprings!
Hot springs in Bolivia - lovely to soak in after a long ride
Culpeo - or Andean Fox! I felt very lucky to see him, although the fact that the 4WD vehicles were stopping to feed him means he's probably pretty bold and always handing around the road.
Mid-fox photography shoot I had to change SD cards and that was probably the best luck I've ever had. A few days later taking the bus back to La Paz in Bolivia my camera was stolen out of the bag under my legs while I was sleeping (there are down-sides to night busses), and so luckily I only lost a few days of photos with it as opposed to all the photos from Jordan, Morocco and Bolivia to date!
