My group had 5 people, plus our driver and his wife (our cook). Here the trip really started...We spent the next 3 days driving along roads, paths or simply across the desert (only snaping one rim and getting stuck once). The colours were unbelievable. Cool rocks, animals, mountains, volvanos, giesers and lakes appeared from nowhere. The scenery was unreal, especially today (the last day) when we arrived at the salt flat. 10,000 square kilometers of salt. It looks like a sea. As far as the eye can see is salt! We even stayed in a hotel made of salt.
This is Laguna Verde (Green Lake)
These are the Dali Rocks. They appear out of nowhere in the desert.
These are some giesers, and a boiling mud puddle.
There are tons of flamingos here. The bottom one is a young one, it was not afraid to let me get really close. 
This is Tree Rock, it also appears out of nowhere.
This llama is being farmed -- that is why he has pink things in his ears.
I can´t remember which Lake this was, but it reflected everything very nicely.
I loved all the colours in the desert, they are not all obvious in this picture, but it does show some of them.
This hotel is made of salt, the beds, walls, tables and floors (except in the bathroom) are all made of salt.
On our last day we came across these fox like animals (there were 2 of them), but we could not get very close before they ran away.
The Uyuni salt flat was one of the last stops, and it is truely unreal. The salt goes on as far as the eye can see. We stopped at an island in the middle covered in cactus -- they were huge! It was also fun to play with the camera here.
A single 4x4 on the flat. Distance was impossible to judge here.
This is where they mine the salt from the salt flat.
Our last stop was the train graveyard in Uyuni, Bolivia.
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