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A cactus-covered island on the Salar de Uyuni.
The word, in the Quechua language, means "House of the Inca". This is a name which returns also elsewhere in the Andes: for example, it belongs to a big volcano in the Puna de Atacama, close to the Ojos del Salado, the highest active volcano in the world, whose name in turn means "the eyes of the salty plain". Curiously enough, but not surprisingly, we have some "Ojos del Salar" also at Colchani, close to Uyuni; here the "ojos" are little permanent lakes at the border of the Salar, whose surface is normally dry, like here, except after heavy rains, when a thin layer of water happens to cover the salty surface (http://www.mountainpanoramas.com/___p/___p.html?panoid=2012_X4).
Although having so few things to name, here we live in the reign of topographic confusion, and in most sources, notably including Google, the island is confused with the "nearby" (so to say...) Isla Lomo del Pescado, called this way because seen from the surface of the salar it displays the silhouette of a swimming fish. I have marked the position of the correct Pescado island.
Larger: www.panoramio.com/photo/76431348
Hans-Jürgen Bayer, Sebastian Becher, Peter Brandt, Jörg Braukmann, Hans-Jörg Bäuerle, Paul Chater, Friedemann Dittrich, Jörg Engelhardt, Felix Gadomski, Johannes Ha, Heinz Höra, Thomas Janeck, Martin Kraus, Geir Anders Langangen, Giuseppe Marzulli, Daniel Mürbe, Jan Lindgaard Rasmussen, Danko Rihter, Werner Schelberger, Walter Schmidt, Christoph Seger, Michael Strasser, Jens Vischer, Augustin Werner
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Hier empfiehlt sich übrigens auch der Blick auf Google Earth, weiß so weit das Auge reicht.
PS: Warum erst nach vier Jahren ????
Staunen pur!
Gruss Walter
lG,
Jörg E.
Thank you for sharing!
Augustin
Yes, the place is unpleasantly crowded; it is the target of the perfect one-day-tour from Uyuni for the tourist in search for the comfortable Salar adventure. By bicycle I hope to be there in the future, in 2009 I was there only in the utmost mass-touristic way, namely, on a Toyota. Nevertheless, as Augustin points out, I did already supply from the surroundings less standard images, with far less standard atmospheres and/or standpoints. Search Google Images for "Isla Incahuasi", and then, for contrast, try to locate on the nearby Tunupa a companion to the panorama quoted by Augustin, or to my favourite, the Sentinel!
Since, according to my observations, popularity is inversely proportional to originality, the present one was a potential killer for the others - that is why it had to come last! Of course, at the time, after delaying it, I also forgot it, but now the memory has been awakened by the work published on MP (and quoted above), so... here we are.
I did not like the strong colours at Arroz Panorama so much but your Pano is still breathtakin! Thanks a lot for your great work!
greetings Seb
Bei mir "bleibt" der Salar BW; in der Wirklichkeit ist doch das Weiss viel reiner als hier: ich habe den Regler Struktur etwas gedreht, um das kuriose Spiel der verschiedenen Pisten zu zeigen.
Dieses Subjekt hat eine Fläche von 10.600 km^2, fast wie meine Region, Trentino Alto Adige (13.600 km^2); so habe ich gedacht, auf dem Weiss etwas einzufügen...
Natürlich staune ich, wenn ich sehe, wie ich in 2009 ein Anfänger war (leider staune ich noch mehr wenn ich sehe, wie ich noch in 2013 ein Anfänger oft bin). Hätte ich nur ein wenig fortgesetzt... und das auf beiden Seiten, aber besonders auf der rechten, wo die Insel ein ganz schönes Finale hat, wie man in http://www.panoramio.com/photo/70416432 sieht. Aber die zwei Standorte zeigen einen zu grossen Unterschied, um etwas auszuprobieren.
How many hours on an airplane, how many stop overs simply to get to La Paz from Europe?
How many hours from there to Potosi, then Uyuni then the Salar (even with a Toyota)?
I remember visiting Bolivia in July 1994 as a backpacker, wearing layers of sweaters at night and regularly sleeping with a hat, because it was so cold in the (dirt cheap) hotel rooms.
My (also dirt cheap) camera then had a fixed focus lens and only three (automatic) and was totally overwhelmed by the Salar's brightness, but the memories of this breathtakingly beautiful scenery remain.
For those interested in the place, I would also like to recommend the following full spherical panorama taken during rainy season, when the salt lake turns into a giant mirror (I don't know its photographer):
http://www.360cities.net/image/when-heaven-and-earth-merges-late-sunrise-over-the-giant-mirror-of-uyuni-bolivia#456.72,1.43,120.0
Actually, today I have checked the standalone pictures "on both sides" of the pano directory: they are all fairly crowded. That is presumably why I did not extend the FOV further - see the complaints in my comment above. (The one written, I don't know why, in a purported German...)
Consider also that nowadays a noticeable amount of touristic flow reaches the Uyuni - Lipez region directly from Argentina and/or Chile, that is, people show up here without having coped with the actually long and tough piste coming from La Paz - Oruro. As a result, this actually turns out not to be a very Lonely spot of the Planet!
Very well done too!
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