Rest Day - Uyuni

It would seem that Uyuni must have been an important industrial or railway town at one point in time because there's a rather large and now seemingly unused train station in the centre of the city, but what makes this little town, on the edge of the salt plain, important / interesting to see, other as being a tourism hub, is it's rather large train cemetery.

Seemingly the POMS were invited over to Bolivia, in 1888 or thereabouts, to construct locomotives, carriages and most importantly of all, to lay the tracks, so as to enable the various mining company's in the area to get their minerals to the ports on the Pacific Ocean. 

Unfortunately it would seem however, when the mining industry collapsed in the 1940s as a result of mineral depletion the trains were abandoned (Run into one another and then set alight or something, would seem closer to the truth of things). Either way though, it gives rise to a very interesting site, well worth visiting if you are in the area.