Sorry for the delay in blogging but the the internet in bolivia is exetremely slow and i'm behind about a week. But i can't forget THIS!! So after the first day we headed to Uyuni because we couldnt access the salt flats because the route was too flooded. So we were put up in a hotel in Uyuni, which is a dusty desert town with the only nearby attraction being the salt flats.
So now that i was in Uyuni i would have to finalize my immigration status, for the last 2 days i was officially in no country. So i had to go to the immigration office in uyuni to get a tourist visa. Since i have the privelge of being an american citizen traveling abroad, i get to pay 135 usd for a visa while everyone else gets in free!! Well its necessary so i go to the immigration office and they tell me that they dont accept chilean pesos, which is all i have. So i have to go around and finally find a respectable place to change my chilean pesos into bolivan boliveanos. So i do that and go back and pay them and then they ask for my yellow fever vaccination certification, SHIT!! Nobody told me about that!
When i was back home before the trip i told my doctor in york everything that i needed, vaccinations wise. Apparently there was a mixup and i didnt recieve my yellow fever vaccination. Soo after running to my hotel and checking if i had it, realizing that i didnt and fearing the consequences, maybe having to go back to chile, another 3 day journey or whatever the unpredcitable bolivian immigration officers might do. I returned back to the immigration office and told them that i didnt have it. But that i needed to be able to enter bc my tour was continuing to the salt flats the next day. I pleaded with them and asked if there was anything they could do to let me in, after asking them for awhile they said that if i wasnt going to enter the jungle, which i wasnt, that i could pay another "fee" and be allowed to enter bolivia, legally. So i paid an extra 10 usd and now i had a legal visa to enter bolivia, YES!! But i still of having the problem of having no yellow fever vaccination in a continent which ususally requires proof of having it before allowing entrance.
