One of the Salar de Uyuni stops was at Laguna Honda, a shallow lagoon at a base of a mountain. Jen was shocked to find out that there are actually a lot of flamingos in Bolivia (always assumed they were from hot places like Mexico/Africa), and that many of them even stay around during the winter when the lagoons are half frozen by morning. They were a lot of fun to watch and listen to - they squawk quite a bit as they're eating :). The best thing about this lagoon was that the flamingos are super friendly and not at all shy!
Oddly, we saw a sign indicating that flamingos are not allowed to fly at this lagoon... That being said, we managed to catch several incidents of illegal flamingo-flying on film.. guess they don't enforce the rule very strictly in the winter.. or it's like the random stranger in La Paz told us at the Gran Poder "...you're in Bolivia now, you can do whatever you want - no one can tell you what you can or can't do here!"
Also, you are apparently not allowed to pee at the lagoon (standing up or squatting).
