Skipping a day now…we went from Uyuni to Oruro which is just a town that is basically one big market (the pictures messed up while uploading and now the battery on my camera is dead….and Its dead becuase I cant take pictures with it anymore for some reason so I havn´t been charging the battery) So moving on, the next day we decided to go camping at a lake which was supposed to have spectacular views. Having gotten outdated information from guidebooks before I mentioned to Celine maybe we should check on it because her book is three years old but she simply replied that the lake isn´t just going to dissapear. Well once we arrived in the small no name town which we would were supposed to get dropped off in by ¨Micro bus 23¨ and walk the rest of the 5Ks to the lake, we spoke to someone and realized that that is exactly what happened. ¨El lago es seca¨, the lake is dry.
Still determined to go camping we started our way up the nearest hill and didn´t make it far before we realized we could walk for miles until we find flat ground and all of us had everything we owned (because we hadn´t been planning on doing a vertical trek, we hadn´t stored anything at the last hostel). So we stopped! right above the town, blocked by a bunch of rocks and camped there. 
That night we made a small fire outside of the view of town and all crammed into Bosh´s tent later on. At one point we were questioned by some locals (the house just below the rocks) about our prescence, but once we told them that we were just there to eat sleep and enjoy the scenery they followed by welcoming us and offering assistance if we were to be messed with. They were just making sure we weren´t robbers looking to take the town in the night…the four of us dont exactly look the part.
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