Photos part 8
LATIN AMERICA: Crossing Bolivia's Altiplano in Winter
We cross a remote 600km stretch of high altitude landscape during the crossing to Chile. On this trip we pass through some of the most bizarre & lunar landscapes, as well as crossing the world's largest Salt flats. We reach a maximum altitude of 5040m, and during the night, we experienced a minimum temperature of -20deg!!
In the mining town of Potosi in Bolivia you can buy dynamite on the streets for about $1 per stick. So we bought 60 and "blew shit up"...
Here truck mascot Baker is shown posing with several sticks.
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BOOM!!!! - Note the shock wave knocking dust off the back of the truck
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In the train cemetry of Uyuni.
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The open endless expanse of the largest salt flats in the world.
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Evidence of the invisible force field surrounding me.
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Learning to fly on the salt flats
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Smashing a block of salt, freeze-framed in the bright light of the salt flats.
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One of my passengers learning to fly!
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Moon rising over Laguna Colorada
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My new camera has an amazing zoom that allowed me to take this un-edited shot!
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Lots of open space in a lunar landscape
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Sometimes things go wrong... sinking through soft salt here.
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Which way to go???
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Up here are thousands of pink flamingos that live in the lakes.
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After entering Chile I offered to take 5 passengers from the town of San Pedro at altitude 2500m, up a nearby road to a high point from which they were to cycle down the hill back to San Pedro. When we ran out of road, we found ourselves at a weather station alongside a Sulpher mine near the crater of a volcano at an altitude of 5548m!!!
Most people never climb that high, I took a bright blue 17t truck up there...
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On the way down
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One of my favourite photos: impressive volcan Licancabur at sunset...
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