The best holiday I've ever had

Last summer I had the best holiday ever! I travelled with my boyfriend, my best friend and two of my cousins by plane to Calama and then moved by bus to San Pedro. We stayed there one night in a hostel and started our trip to Bolivia. We took a 3-day jeep tour from San Pedro to Uyuni trough the Altiplano. The whole trip was perfect but I think this tour was the best part of it. I could never imagine how beautiful the altiplano was without being there.

At the altiplano there are several lagoons whose water has different colours. The first we saw was the white lagoon, then the green lagoon and finally the red lagoon. It was very impressive to see that the colour of the lagoons was exactly like its name said. The lagoons have different minerals that make the water take those beautiful colours. All those awesome lagoons had a lot of flamingos on their water.  We learnt to differentiate the three types of flamingo: the Chilean one, the flamingo andino and the James flamingo. At the tour we also saw the Stone Tree and the Stone Condor, eroded rocks that took exactly the form of a tree and a condor respectively. At the altiplano we stayed in a refuge where we had dinner and spent the night. The refuge was something like 4500 msnm and it was very difficult to breathe and so to get asleep. At the end of the tour we arrived to Uyuni Salt Lake. It is really amazing. It’s so big that you can’t see its edge. If the last night it rained in Uyuni, the salt lake seems like a huge mirror, and you can see the whole sky and clouds reflected on it. It was an extraordinary experience.