Blogs from Potosí Department, Bolivia, South America - page 145

English We have noticed that the number of comments and visits to this blog is decreasing. Hence, this time we have decided to amaze you with the best landscapes and probably the pictures of our trip. The southwest part of Bolivia is simply out of this world. Last time we wrote we were in Tupiza waiting for somebody to join us for the famous 4 days jeep tour to the Salar de Uyuni. We had to wait two days... but at the end we found two amazing fellows, Seraphin and Antonella. Probably the most original guys we have met so far. Two mystical germans, the first ones who put forward an alternative way of travelling independently. Instead of relying on the Lonely Planet (or on similar guides), their trip was based on a different book: the ... read more

We entered Bolivia on the 3rd of March from San Pedro on a 4x4. the road into Bolivia from Chile is a dirt track the road to Argentina however, it tarmac! We climbed up to an altidude to over 4000m. I was in a jeep with 3 people from Austria and 2 people from Switzerland, all German speaking.. but they kindly spoke in English so I could understand. (Apart from the driver who was from Bolivia). The first place we stopped was Laguna Blanco - the white lake, white because of borax, it was stunning.. It was silvery and had loads of flamingos. The next lake was Laguna Verde, we were here for about 1 hour and in that time the lake changed from being green and transparent to become green/touquise and opaque. I couldnt believe ... read more

English We are now in Bolivia! We arrived here by crossing the border with Argentina from La Quiaca. Visiting La Quiaca, the northest part of Argentina, is one of the cool (or maybe silly?) things that one could do together with visiting the southern most part of Argentina, Ushuaia (more than 5000 km far south). Argentinian buses do not dare to cross the border and have problems through the bad gravel roads of Bolivia, so they left us before the border just to say 'And now on foot!'. So we grabbed our backpacks and started to walk for about one km to cross the border (after having our last argentinan milanesa con papas fritas of course...). It was a bit hard since we were at 3500 meters of altitude and with so much weight you can ... read more

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We're back!! Let us try and fill you in quickly with what we've done in the past week: Today we arrived in Potosi, the world's highest town at 4070m! We weren't here long but just enough time to visit the famous silver mines on which the people here prospered for years. As you can imagine, the mines are dark and damp, and pretty claustrophobic if you stay too long. The miners work long hours though, earning about 3 pounds a day for what is hard and monotonous work. As part of the tour we bought them all a bag of presents, consisting of: 2 packets of biscuits - to munch on A bag of cocoa leaves - chewing on these helps ward off hunger, cold, pain and altitude sickness A stick of dynamite - just to ... read more