Bolivia"s Salar de Uyuni is worth its salt


	Bolivia"s Salar de Uyuni is worth its salt

wiganfootie

10-9-2009 7:46 PM

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10-9-2009 8:28 PM

lollipop10

Interesting clip, WF, too bad the article didn't come with more pictures. (yes i'm too lazy to go looking right now

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10-9-2009 11:02 PM

macrofind

Brings back many great memories. We visited the Salar de Uyuni a few months ago. It was the experience of a lifetime...

10-9-2009 11:12 PM

shaor

I have been to Bolivia and as far as I can remember, it is a country for the rich! (Ithink! I visited so many small countries in Europe, I may have got confused!)

10-9-2009 11:13 PM

shaor

Oh, Maybe that was "Luxemburg" I was thinking of?

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no police, no one to control you. 
No one cares. You can drive as fast as you want!'
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I imagine her practising three-point turns, parallel parking 
and reversing around a corner on 
the endless white terrain of Bolivia's Uyuni Salt <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="12606736">Lake</A>. 
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a field day here – all 12,000 sq km 
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Unlike its South American neighbours, landlocked Bolivia can consider itself off the beaten track mainly because it is still so hard to 
get to. There are no direct flights 
from Europe to capital La Paz, so most people cross the border from Peru, Argentina, Brazil or Chile, which also gives them the chance to acclimatise to the city's heady 3,636-metre altitude. 
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