7 colors and endless salt

    Thursday morning was another early one. We've all been really good about getting up early to start our adventures, and its paid off because we get so much sight seeing done by noon, and then have the whole afternoon to see more or head somewhere else on the bus.
    So we left Tilcara by bus to get to Purmamarca where we found a cheap excursion to see the salt flats in the province. In Purmamarca there was a plaza full of more street venders. And even though it's the exact same stuff as in Tilcara, everything is so fun to look at. The wall of 7 colors is there too, which is a red rock wall full of colors like blue, purple, pinks, greens. I need to go back to my geography class to understand how all these rock formations were made.
    Our excursion driver took us and a few other people in his van directly west through the Jujoy province to the salt flats. It was another beautiful drive through mountains and canyons with rivers and valleys. We gained quite a bit of altitude too going over a mountain pass, and stopping at the point where the road was 4,000 meters and the highest point in the road which was 4,170 meters. There were even street venders at this point selling little trinkets of llamas and carved rocks. Eventually we got to the salt flats, a pure white and flat landscape that we could see from miles away from up high on the mountain.
    Whats there to do at the salt flats? Run through mounds of salt, lick the salt (tasted just like salt), and take creative artsy pics, like of us jumping, dancing, or in a pyramid. Other than that, there really isn't much to do, but its fun to see, and just our drive there alone was worth the money we paid because we got to see so many different landscapes on the way.