@Shannon: Thanks. Glad that you enjoyed the panoramas. Although software is making them a bit easier to stitch, they are still difficult to execute properly. Glad we are making some headway.

Your comparison between the Painted Desert and the Salar de Uyuni is apt. So much so that our companion from New Mexico made a similar observation. Both are absolutely beautiful.
@Alleen: Great to see you here. I’m glad to hear that we captured the Salar. It was absolutely beautiful. But as we took the photos, we figured we couldn’t even come close to doing that landscape justice.

Snowing?! Wow, that would that make for some difficult going. What month was this?
@Jodi: Sorry to hear that your Salar de Uyuni guide was drunk. Unfortunately, we heard that is quite common. Fortunately, we got some recommendations from other travelers fairly early regarding how to avoid this. We left from Tupiza (where Tupiza Tours is based). I don’t believe they offer an option to leave from Uyuni. Although the Tupiza Tours Salar tour leaves from Tupiza, you have the option of staying in Uyuni (at the end) or returning to Tupiza — for the same price.
@Jeff: I was absolutely thrilled to see that you commented! Like I said to Shannon above, it’s amazing how the Salt Flats reminded us of Death Valley, The Painted Desert and New Mexico. We even traveled with a friend from New Mexico who joked “Now why did I come all this way to see to something that looks like my backyard.” (am paraphrasing here, Gaea!)
@Brian: Just “starting”? We were hoping you were in the throes of a full-blown addiction from which there is no escape.
@Matt: Thanks. I’d like to think we usually don’t do cheese. We did take some of those perspective shots (it’s like some sort of mandatory Salar de Uyuni rite of passage).

That said, we deliberately did not include those photos in this piece or in our Salar de Uyuni slideshow.

That 360 shot is even more awesome