Uyuni salt lake is pure white to the horizon and can travel freely in the dry season

The salt earth as much as I could see was about to be pickled. If it is rainy in the rainy season, it will be "mirrored", so you can not move freely without a dry season. It took nearly a year since I started Vancouver in Canada, but as scheduled it's a dry seasonUyuni salt lakeI arrived at the pure white world and it became covered with salt.

Hello,Around the World Bicycle WorldIt is Takuya Sudo @ Chaliderman. "As if the soul trembled in Uyuni's "mirror-up" like heavenIt seems that Uyuni in the rainy season is popular among backpackers as in the article, but it is definitely a dry season if it is a charrider. A huge Uyuni salt lake without anyone was free to go anywhere like a skating rink.

The white Uyuni salt lake which can be confirmed also on the Google map.

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Uyuni Salt Lake
After Bolivia 's capital city La Paz moved to the regional city Orlo. I can go to Uyuni town straight ahead straight down from Orlo, but it is aheadFriend's charriderI decided to half cross the Uyuni salt lake halfway across from the town called Salinas de Garci Mendoza.

You can see a salty scenery even near an orro


Running for a while it is unpaved


Go through some lonely settlements.


Grave


There was a small salt lake on the sidewalk


The tornado in a place where there is nobody seems to be playing the wind.


Alpaca crossing the destination


Alpaca seems to be wary of this.


Centro of Salinas de Garci Mendoza


It seemed like a small town, and it seemed that there were so many people living there.


◆ Uyuni to salt lake
I stayed at Salinas de Garci Mendoza for 1 night and aimed at Uyuni Salt Lake the next day. Even though I intended to camp and went to buy food, I made a mistake to forget to load a 1.5 liter PET bottle with water in the morning. Even though I intend to replenish somewhere in the village, I became disgusted by the deep sandy road and quickly entered the Uyuni salt lake. The area of ​​Uyuni Salt Lake located at an altitude of 3700 m is approximately 15,82 square kilometers, almost the same size as Gifu Prefecture in Japan. Since there is almost no difference in altitude, it is completely white to the end of the horizon.

Although it is dry and salty, it plows the field. How can we make it?


Discover who is an irreverentible who destroys fields


From the unpaved road where sand is a lot hard to run, I went to a plain that was tightened and easy to run.


Wonder if water accumulates here in the rainy season. It seems that this plain is also connected to Uyuni salt lake, but it returns to land according to the rut.


A settlement where no sign of a person was felt at all


Small church


Because there was a sign here, I entered Uyuni Salt Lake before the target city. The sand is deep in the road of the land, and the bicycle does not advance.


A son of alpaca about behind the parent alpaca. Parents and children of animals are cute.


Alpacas who just said that "If you want to go to a salt lake, beat us." As you approach it I will follow you soon.


And, enter Uyuni salt lake! It is!


An incredibly pure white world was spreading


I'm afraid I will be in the snowy field


I dig a salt lake and I am making salt.


Uyuni salt lake in the north that was slightly damp and making a jerry


As I rolled up the salt ground, the bicycle was covered with salt.


In Shiobara around here, a lump of lumps emerged.


A raised salt mass.


After a while it dries, on the ground which is easy to run.


A pattern like the cross section of a honeycomb is engraved on the ground


Volcan Tunupa with an elevation of 5321 m, where a huge crater attracted attention


The feeling that there is only myself here


I was pursuing white ground and the horizon


White ground


There was no thick strut up to Inkaasashima island (Isla Incahuasi) floating in the middle of Uyuni salt lake, because it was running while stepping on the ground of salt and salt, speed did not come out. Although the island could be seen more than 20 km ahead, I am tired of not having the distance feeling quite easily.


At the finally arriving Inawashiroshima, the cactus had grown up.


Cacti growing up in limited space


Pictures taken by sightseeing people


After finishing the tour of Inkashijima, I will run towards Uyuni 's town at dusk time.


From the other side where the sunset, the night will gradually become darker.


◆ Uyuni escape salt lake
Of course I went to bed with a tent. Because the water did not freeze, it was not cold there.


Because it was flat, I could sleep well.


Clear luggage and prepare for departure


As soon as I started running, I challenged taking a picture in such a scene.


What?


It is not going well


Oh ...


I want to take a picture of running.


With this feeling.


I was taking several ten. In such a pleasant place, it would be better to have someone take pictures with someone.


My cameraman is self-timer


Pure white Uyuni salt lake - YouTube


The place where such excitement in salt lake is ... ...


The inside is a hollow, and the salt lump is peeled off parly.


There were places where the ground was broken and salt water was accumulated. It looks like ordinary water when touched, but it turns white with salt as it dries.


Nice weather on this day


The second day obediently ran after the car rut. Depending on the location, asphalt-like speed comes out.


The main road where a lot of cars go and go was dark at the trace of the tire.


This place where many national flags fluttered ......


Salt hotel located in Uyuni salt lake


Arrived on the other side near Uyuni town. Again I was making salt.


I landed in the town of Uyuni, running a trunk line that is not more than ten kilometers long. Water managed somehow.

◆ Uyuni Town
Although Uyuni is a small town, there are tours to go to Atakama of salt lake and Chile, and it is crowded with many tourists.

Clock tower in the center of town


Cheap guests staying


Railway station


Goods that have been transported from where


Monument


Awesome indiana's aunt


Saiko Art


In the Uyuni cafeteria, llama meat is a classic menu


Soup with llama meat


Bolivian style Oya as hot and hafhafed


And, preparing for the next, staying in Uyuni town for 4 days. Even if the bicycle rusted, I wash it tightly.

Uyuni salt lake which I dreamed of running someday from when I was aiming for a cycle around the bicycle world. I can not find a place where bicycles can be free so much even if I look around the world. Because there is nothing there, everything looked beautiful.

(Sentence / photo: Takuya S. Narou Charriderman
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