Strange Badlands enroute from Tupiza to Uyuni
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The jeep climbed higher and higher along a meandering and undulating dirt track that traverses the rugged Cordillera de Lipez backing the town of Tupiza until we came to this view point overlooking the wide dry quebrada (valley) below with the strange landscape of badlands where we finally took a break.
Called locally as "La Silla" the erosions have carved out strange and deep furrows and pinnacles below.
Despite the sweltering heat the kaleidoscopic landscape just outsie the small village of Tupiza made...
Much of the landscape surrounding the village of Tupiza consists of no more than sun-baked barren bad...
Never a great rider, I dismounted and walked this part of the trip to this natural occuring break in ...
The concrete platform atop the miniscule Cerro Corazón de Jesus a short walk from the central plaza o...
The town of Tupiza in southern Bolivia is served by the legendary Oruro - Villazon train which calls ...
En route to Uyuni we passed a herd of llamas busily gorging on the low shrubs and tussock grasses gro...
The first day on the Tupiza-Uyuni salt flat circuit involves an almost unbroken 10 hours of long driv...
Wreckage of a steam locomotive was destroyed on the outskirts of Uyuni, but had created a very strang...
The small village of Colchani is the usual point of access to the giant salt flats of Uyuni. Located ...
Riding along Ruta 30 I left near the little village of Colchani to head into the Salar de Uyuni. Rain...
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