Sorry we don't really keep up with our blog. When we were traveling through Bolivia we didn't have any internet! We are in Lima now but I'm going to try and catch you up on what we've done.
So Shane wrote about our first day on the Salt Flat tour and still hasn't written about the other days so I'm going to take a crack at it because I want to write about recent stuff! :)
Now, I don't remember a lot because I spent most of the time laying down in the jeep on Shane's lap!
So the second day we woke up bright and early around 6:30am.
Our group misunderstood the instructions the night before so we were really late and Lucas (our driver) wasn't too happy. He keep walking by the room yelling "It's a long drive!" so we quickly packed our things, through them on top of the jeep and went on our way.
That day was dedicated to the Lagoons. I can't quite remember the order because I was half asleep and I couldn't really tell the difference... but we saw a blue, green, red, and white lagoon that day. The first was the blue I believe and it was FULL of flamingos. Lucas told us they feed on the microscopic organisms in the slaty lagoons. The lagoons were all very beautiful and we stopped for
lunch at our second one. I'm pretty sure it was the green lagoon. Shane took some pictures while I sat on a rock trying to catch my breath. On day one, we started at 3800 m above sea level and then continued to climb from there. So by day two, and once we hit the second lagoon we were at around 4300 m. I know it sounds like I'm a wimp but if you lived on sea level your whole life and climbed 4000 m in two days then you would lose your breathe too!!
The boys we met and took the tour with were awesome. During lunch Shane and I learned some hebrew words that are not appropriate to type on here. It was pretty funny for me to try and say them because if you know me my accents are HORRIBLE! Shane was very good
, but the boys video taped me and made fun of me the rest of the trip. haha :)
After lunch we saw the other two lagoons then made it to our new hostel by 4pm. At this hostel
we sat at 5200m above sea level. As soon as we arrived there my head started to ache a bit and I felt a bit dizzy and sick to my stomach so I asked everyone if they just wanted to chill out and take a nap and do a walk around later. Everyone agreed and we all curled up in our beds in the freezing cold hostel. Before we all fell asleep the boys decided to try and make me laugh because I was feeling so crappy. During the trip we taught our friend Dudi how to say suicide, awesome, shut up, and few others which are also inappropriate to put on here. So, all three of the Israel boys started doing impersonations of me and Shane and I almost died laughing! So funny... and what made it hilarious was that Dudi started saying how if anything happened to me (because I was feeling so sick) that they would all do suicide. It might not sound that funny on here but it was actually hilarious!
After we woke up from our nap the altitude really hit me. It's worse when you sleep because of lack of oxygen. As soon as I opened my eyes I was running outside to throw up. Shane, like a
good boyfriend (note the sarcasm), started taking pictures! But after I yelled at him he started to take care of me... God love him. It was freezing outside (atleast 0 with the wind chill) and he stood right by my side rubbing my back and hugging me in between. After a cup of coco leaf tea and a dozen chewed up leaves in my mouth, my pounding headache eased up a bit, my tummy settled, and I was able to lay down and go to sleep. It was a very rough night!
The next morning we woke up around 4:30am. Lucas woke us up this time because we had to go see the geysers while it was still freezing out. I was still really sick but Shane packed my bag for me and sat with me in the back of the jeep while I laid on his lap.
Shane got out of the jeep to see the geysers while I watched from the window.
Geysers are a very rare phenomenon. What they are caused from are boiling water under the surface of the earth. The water runs over hot rocks, which are caused from active volcanos, and causes the water to boil. Once this happens the pressure causes the steam from the water to shoot up from the ground. We were told not to go too close to the Geysers because they can be very dangerous. Shane didn't listen of course and went right up to it and put his hand over the steam. He told us that it wasn't hot but a bit chilly.
Shane was lucky, because later I met a girl who told me on her tour a guy from Brazil stepped
too close to one of the non-controlled geyser. He stepped on a soft piece of earth and his leg sunk in causing his skin to burn. The girl told me that it was so badly burnt that they had to airlift him to the hospital and back to Brazil. Pretty scary stuff!
After the geyser we headed to a hot spring near by. I was feeling alright but it was so cold outside so I didn't get in. Shane and a
couple of the boys got in though! Shane said it was amazing and I'll take his word for it. There was ice all over the ground around the hot spring so that made me change my mind about getting in.
So I was very excited to head back to Uyuni and get out of that crazy place. As soon as Shane and I got back we booked our train ticket to La Paz and sat in a little cafe for 5 hours before it left at midnight.
This blog as turned out to be very long so I'm going to write about our trip to La Paz and then our trip to Peru later! :)
Maybe Shane will write one soon ;)
Love Ash
xo
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