La Puna. Continuation.
It was time for us to move on. After we had left Pumramarka early in the morning, we took a long bypass around the Salinas Grandes salt marsh, towards the small village of Tolar Grende.
The further we moved away from civilization, the harsher the surrounding landscape became. We were climbing higher and higher and stopped seeing any llamas at all, but met herds of shaggy woolly alpacas instead.
In the middle of the journey, we managed to get a flat tire on a rocky road. Fortunately for us, there was a military base with a small village nearby on the way. There we found a God-forsaken tire shop and a gas station, the last one for the next 700 kilometers of the route.
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