La Paz and Uyuni

Our first destination was La Paz, there Jenni, Linnea, and I and met up with Coury and Drea who had already been there for a day. La Paz was quite nice, it was actually better than I expected, mostly because Colombians and I think all of South America is very prejudice against Bolivians so they had given us lower expectations than were warrented if they had ever actually been there. However other than a few churches there wasn't very much to see. It also isn't safe at night so we didn't experience any of the night life the first time we were in La Paz.


After that we headed to Uyuni where we met up with Kelsey and Jo (they had been traveling around northern Argentina for about 10 days since their lease was up mid-month) and did a 3 day Jeep tour of the Bolivian highlands. The first day we went to the salt flats, which are just what they sound like salt as far as the eye can see (it used to be a lake), which is pretty sureal. They're also really cool because you can take perspective pictures where you can't really tell how far apart people are because the backdrop is all the same.







Then the next two days we spent looking at lakes (some had flamingos!! I didn't know that flamingos could live in cold environments but apparently yes because it was TOTALLY freezing there!!), going through some kind of deserty landscape. During the evenings we stayed in 5 house (or less) towns with 2 hours of electricity at night and no showers haha hard to imagine our friends loving that but it was great!!