{"id":17966,"date":"2025-07-24T01:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorom.org\/2025\/07\/24\/to-salar-de-uyuni%e2%9c%a8\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T01:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:14:20","slug":"to-salar-de-uyuni%e2%9c%a8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorom.org\/en\/2025\/07\/24\/to-salar-de-uyuni%e2%9c%a8\/","title":{"rendered":"To Salar de Uyuni\u2728"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Finally, I headed to Salar de Uyuni, a place I had longed to visit.<\/p>\n\n

I left home at 8:30 p.m. the night before and arrived in Uyuni by overnight bus for about nine hours.<\/p>\n\n

From there, we signed up for a tour and started the tour after breakfast! (During breakfast, we enjoyed chatting with tourists from various countries in Latin America \ud83d\ude0b It is one of the wonderful things about Latin America that even if you meet someone for the first time, you quickly become friends with them.)<\/p>\n

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After visiting a train graveyard and touring a salt factory, we finally headed to the salt lake.<\/p>\n\n

As one would expect from Salar de Uyuni, we saw a few Japanese here and there. After driving for a while, we found ourselves surrounded by pure white salt. It was truly beautiful.<\/p>\n

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What a lunch we had in the middle of the salt lake with the pure white scenery.<\/p>\n\n

It was all very rich, like fried chicken and yakisoba noodles \ud83d\ude02, but it was a great lunch in the white salt lake \u2728.<\/p>\n

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Then we went to take pictures and videos of trick art. We had a great time running away from the monsters, coming out of the Pringles, and shooting with a Peruvian couple from the same group: \u263a\ufe0f<\/p>\n

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Finally, we went to the mirrored area.<\/p>\n\n

A place I have dreamed of for a long time!<\/p>\n\n

It was truly beautiful and out of this world \ud83e\udd79\u2728 I’m so glad I’m alive! It was a view that made me feel so happy to be alive.<\/p>\n

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After returning to La Paz…<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

After returning from Uyuni, I spent a few days in La Paz!<\/p>\n\n

We made and served curry to everyone, took the ropeway, La Paz’s public transportation system, around the city to enjoy the scenery, and went on a short trip to Copacabana, a small town on the shores of Lake Titicaca.<\/p>\n

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And the last day…<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

Because it was the last time, my host mother bought me a lot of Bolivian food and I was full all morning \ud83d\ude02.<\/p>\n

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Neighbors went out of their way to bake bread and cakes for the gathering, and we had a great time at the end.<\/p>\n

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It was really sad to say goodbye to my host family who I spent 10 days with, and we all cried together at home and at the airport as we said goodbye. I cried even harder when my host family said to me warmly, “Don’t forget that you have family in Bolivia,” and I promised myself that one day I would come back to see my beloved family again.<\/p>\n

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The next destination is Medell\u00edn, Colombia!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Interns at the Japanese Cultural Center “Spring Hinata.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally, I headed to Salar de Uyuni, a place I had longed to visit. I left home at 8:30 p.m. the night before and arrived in Uyuni by overnight bus for about nine hours. From there, we signed up for a tour and started the tour after breakfast! (During breakfast, we enjoyed chatting with tourists from various countries in Latin America \ud83d\ude0b It is one of the wonderful things about Latin America that even if you meet someone for the first time, you quickly become friends with them.) After visiting a train graveyard and touring a salt factory, we finally headed to the salt lake. As one would expect from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,148,53,120],"tags":[102,151,154,155],"class_list":["post-17966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tomomi-latam-trip-2025-2","category-tomomi-latam-trip-2025-en","category-news-en","category-grow-en","tag-internship-en","tag-bolivia-en","tag-grow-en","tag-tomomi2025-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17966"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gorom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17975,"href":"https:\/\/gorom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions\/17975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}