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The simplest way to get from
Uyuni
to the Licancabur
is, by means of one of the sillion touristic enterprises, which
carry us rich foreigner in jeeps through the desert.
Don't just be dazzled by the landscape, by far more amazing I found that
there are actually people living here.
The landscape has been already described in many books: boundless white salt plains, many vicuñas, flamingos, vizcachos, cactus islands, strange stone formations, geysirs, colored lakes and and and...
For a flight many mountains are suitable it's more a question of accessibility. By the slope of the volcano Tanapu in the north of the salar flights have been already made above the plain. You do not get very far, but panorama from above must be quite something. For me it was only the way to the Licancabur, therefore here only a small picture collection.
Beautiful llamas before Uyuni,
school parade on sunday morning.
This dazzling white salt desert, approximately a third of the
surface of Switzerland, seems almost infinite. It
is tiled regularly everywhere into forms which are in the
ideal case exactly hexagons as can be seen in the right picture.
They result from the large difference between daily heat and
coldness at night. The entire salt surface expands
and shrinks symmetrically, resulting in the most circle like coverage of an even surface, the hexagonal one.
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Isolated in the middle of the white desert small cactus overgrown islands. The cactus in the center is 12 m high and 1200 years old, since a growth rate of a meter every 100 years is estimated. Left in the background of the first picture the volcano Tanapu, possible launch for a salt gliding flight.
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At some places still salt is gathered quite
simply, you just scrub it from the soil and fill it into bags.
Desert flamingos at the Laguna Hedionda,
sulfur smelling geysirs
and again and again endless ways...
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