(Pre-Wedding) Honeymoon, Part XXI - Salty Lagoons and Salt Flats

Today we were up early for our 16KM mountain bike ride to Laguna Cejar, a very salty lagoon where we could attempt to swim but would really just float at the surface due to the high salt.  Allegedly it's got a higher salt concentration than the Dead Sea.

The bike ride was a long one and a challenging one – at least more so than we expected.  The real tricks were several stretches of sand dunes on the dirt roads that you had to drive over perfectly in the right gear or you would definitely fall.  And falls did happen in dominoes – if the person before you goes down, you go down.

We made it!

 Upon arriving at the lagoon, it was worth it.  A random, deep crater, filled with clear blue water that had been heated partially by the sun, but still quite chilly.  I ran in, goggles on, and floated about.