Uyuni

Pensive and unsettled we all decided to leave that night. I quickly packed up and joined Christians friends, Makka and Ery, for the night bus to Uyuni. We knocked on several doors closed under lit Abierto signs. The next morning I woke early to find a spot on a tour leaving that day. Makka, Ery and I had the most wonderful feast of a breakfast and parted ways. At the start of the tour I found a window seat, Nanita, and soon Diane. We became fast friends animated over the salt flats, and the stargazing adventures that awaited us in Chile. The tour of the Salt Flats is a dream where abnormal is normal. A red lagoon, a cactus island on a lake of salt, coral 4000 meters above sea level, and small craters of earth boiling from a volcano below.