We left on Friday to our 2 night 3 day trip traveling around Uyuni. The first day we went to the train cementary and climbed on all the old trains.They were really rusty but really cool!!! There were lots of locomotives and just plain cars but it was awesome. It took us about one hour to drive onto the Salt Flats. It was blinding. Everything you saw was white except for the dark brown mountains. None of my pictures turned out well unless I put them inside my sunglasses!!! We ate lunch at Isla Pescado (Fish Island) and then took a hike to the top of the Island. From there you could see everything. The people there made doors, trash cans, and chairs out of the wood from the cactuses that grew on the island. . Once the cactus dies they let the needles fall off and then shaped the wood into what they wanted. The island acctually used to be an real island when all the salt used to be a sea.Right now you can just drive on the salt and walk onto the island. We arrived at our hotel at about 1 and Helen and I ran around glad to be out of the car. After it got cold we played card games and banana grams untill dinner. Our cook made us vegetable that had habas which are some kind of bean that look like a lima bean. We also had a whole chicken that was so good we thought had died only a couple days ago. It was so good!!! It was cold but we slept good waiting for tomorrow.
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