After all of the horror stories that Ryan and I had read about the salt flats tour, we were pretty anxious when our time came to head there. The day began with a hostel pickup in San Pedro de Atacama, and after our van was full, we went to the Chilean exit point, which turned out to be around the corner from where our hostel was. We received our Chilean exit stamp, and then made our way about 45 minutes out of town to the Bolivian border, which was really just a house in the middle of the desert that said “Bolivia” on it. While receiving my entry stamp into Bolivia, I asked if there was a bathroom that I could use, and with a chuckle, the Bolivian border agent told me no, there was no bathroom there. Welcome to Bolivia! [Read more…] about From the Atacama desert to Uyuni