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2nd May - a Dali Desert and More Rocks

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We drove back from Laguna Verde along the road we had taken and soon started to see the fabulous coloured mountains we had noticed on the way out. I was anxious that we were not going to stop but Pauli confirmed we would and eventually we drew to a halt on the strangely manicured grit. The road looked as if it had been raked. Perhaps it had? We only stopped the once. No traffic passed while we were there and we were in perfect silence while we looked at the strange mountains, eroded and streaked with reds, browns and whites. The road in into the Dali Desert We were in the Dali Desert, named for its exotic, surreal scenery. These were not the only mineral rich and coloured mountains in the desert but they were the ones we stopped by. On a hill to one side stood strange rock pillars, scattered like chess pieces across the slope. It was still only 9.00am, but it felt a lot later and we still had miles to go before we got back to Uyuni. We too