Last time I blogged I was in San Pedro de Atacama in Chile but since then I've crossed the border into Bolivia. I took a three day tour by jeep to see some very strange and wonderful landscapes. Here are some of my pictures.
First I saw lots of lakes with flamingoes.
There were also some strange rock formations, including the 'arbol de piedra' which means 'stone tree'. (Like Chile and Argentina, they speak Spanish in Bolivia, but the accent is quite different. I'm finding it a lot easier to understand the language here than I did in Chile, which is good news!)
The most impressive landscape of all was the salt flats in southern Bolivia. The ground in the pictures below is honestly made of salt and it goes on for miles and miles - as far as you can see! Perhaps it was once an inland sea that has dried up.
Doesn't the ground look strange with all those pentagons and hexagons? They're all natural. You can't see me very well in the picture above so I took a close-up to show I've been there!
The salt flats in Bolivia contain something called 'lithium' which is used to make batteries. I bet Robin's parents have some lithium in their phones.
In Bolivia, some people want to make mines on the salt flats so they can sell the lithium. Bolivia is quite a poor country and this might make some money. On the other hand, the salt flats are a very beautiful place and it might damage the environment if a mine were built there. I wonder what Robin and his friends think about this? I'll be seeing him soon so hopefully I'll find out then.
Adios! (Bye!)
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