Part Two

Sundown Cloud Pattern

A meteorologist might be able to explain this unique light pattern.

Hotel Playa Blanca, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, March 13, 2017

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Sundown

Hotel Playa Blanca, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, March 13, 2017

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Lightning

Lightning in the rain clouds.

Hotel Playa Blanca, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, March 13, 2017

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Sunrise

We had to search a bit to find standing water on the salar after the high wind of the night.

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, March 14, 2017

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Flowering Cushion Plant

Pycnophyllum molle - with larger flowers.

Hotel de Sal Luna Salada, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, March 14, 2017

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Lichens

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Road

Hotel de Sal Luna Salada, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, March 14, 2017

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Unknown Flowers

Hotel de Sal Luna Salada, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, March 14, 2017

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Old Truck

Colchani Market, Bolivia, March 14, 2017

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Woman

Colchani Market, Bolivia, March 14, 2017

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Merchandise

No idea why they sell plastic dinosaurs.

Colchani Market, Bolivia, March 14, 2017

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Merchandise

Colchani Market, Bolivia, March 14, 2017

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Child

Quickly photographed before the child turned around and left.

Colchani Market, Bolivia, March 14, 2017

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Drier Area

Strangely drier than the day before.

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, March 14, 2017

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Panorama

We managed to find a few wet areas to photograph.

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, March 14, 2017

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Photographers

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View

Faintly visible polygons.

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, March 14, 2017

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Cerro Kachi

Our hotel in the foreground.

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, March 14, 2017

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Salt Piles

Laborers came out, piled up the salt to drain more and were loading it into a truck.

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, March 14, 2017

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Loading Salt

A nearly full load of salt.

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, March 14, 2017

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Baird's Sandpipers

Calidris bairdii

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Lama glama

On our way back to the border and Chile.

Uyuni to Alota, Bolivia, March 15, 2017

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Llamas & Herder

Uyuni to Alota, Bolivia, March 15, 2017

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Llamas

Lama glama

Valle de Rocas, Bolivia, March 15, 2017

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Villa Mar

We stopped here for lunch, prepared by our driver's wives.

Bolivia, March 15, 2017

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Wetland

Despite the dryness, we saw several wet valleys on the day's drive.

Villa Mar, Bolivia, March 15, 2017

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Lichens

Villa Mar, Bolivia, March 15, 2017

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Aquatic Vegetation

Small fish and this vegetation indicate this area is wet year round.

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Wetland Stream

Villa Mar, Bolivia, March 15, 2017

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Llama

Lama glama - we just missed a celebration of the Llamas where decorating them occurs.

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Llama

Lama glama

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Woman

The owner of the building where we had out lunch.

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Mountain Road

We drove on dirt roads almost all of the trip.

Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve, Bolivia, March 15, 2017

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Cerro Suni K'ira

Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve, Bolivia, March 15, 2017

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Laguna Capina

Large scale harvesting of borax is done here.

Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve, Bolivia, March 15, 2017

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Volcano Abejon

Somewhere along here, a rock punctured one of the vehicle gas tanks.

Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve, Bolivia, March 15, 2017

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View

15,800 feet.

Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve, Bolivia, March 15, 2017

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Laguna Polques & Andean Flamingos

Phoenicoparrus andinus - back at the lake of a week ago on our way to the Chile border.

Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve, Bolivia, March 15, 2017

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