A blogger has told how she has been having a surreal time observing the salt mines of Bolivia - in a place where you can buy dynamite from the local corner store.
Rhian Nicholson has been writing for TravelBite.co.uk about her experience of swapping the bright lights of London for a three-month journey across South America from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast.
Her 13th blog entry is arguably her most surreal as it finds her in Uyuni, a freezing-cold town in the south of Bolivia.
The location has earned its place on the gringo trail courtesy of its proximity to the world's largest salt flats, miles and miles of salt dunes stretching as far as the eye can see, resembling a pschedelic location from an early Star Wars movie.
It is the photo opportunities this affords which, Rhian believes, makes it worth enduring an arduous potholed bus journey to get to.
She wrote: "The salt flats have a nasty way of tricking your brain into thinking it's actually ice on the ground, making you move as gingerly as a newborn foal on ice skates when in fact you couldn't slip over if you tried."
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