7th October Last day in the desert and we started the day at 5am. Karen came in our car again and our driver, David, seemed like he'd had a good nights rest and we had safe driving all day! Hooray! We drove through the desert towards the Chilean border and stopped at a red, white and green Laguna - all inhabited by 1,000s of flamingos. We also saw a few gizers and beautiful mountain ranges with the highest active volcano in the world. They charged us 15bob to...

6th October 2nd day in the salt flats and our first stop was a short one to take some final group pictures on the salt flats. Then we headed off to **island. Karem explained how the entire area millions*** of years ago was covered by the sea and when the environment changed the salt was left. Then ** years ago for 10,000 years the area had become a lake with several islands covered in cacti due to the minerals of the ground and then the water from the lakes eva...