Our drive through Bolivia brought us to this cool area for a break.
There were high parts that needed climbing.
However after climbing one needs to take a break.
The volcano off in the distance was active and you could see the smoke rising.
You didn’t have to go that far away from everyone before you couldn’t hear anything. It was oddly quiet with no birds or even much wind making any noise at all.
The border crossing into Chile at altitude was quite snowy.
So Kerri made a snow angel.
It was too dry for snowball fights.
As we rose toward the border the desert became covered in snow.
Which was apparently quite slippery, because we got into a horrible car accident.
This lead to an ill-conceived repair attempt.
Which was actually shockingly effective.
We arose at 4:30 AM to catch sunrise at the geysers before crossing the border into Chile.
Even with the hot water is was still quite cold.
But it looked very pretty.
Our first night in the salt flats we upgraded to stay in a hotel made of salt. It looked much better in our imagination.
The building walls are all made up of salt. Although not so tasty as Kerri found out.
This salt was a bit darker than that at the salt museum. There must have been more dirt mixed into the layers as the salt compressed.
But it was warm enough to keep us from noticing that the temperatures were freezing outside.
