We entered Bolivia at the beginning of April and the difference between Bolivia and the countries we had already visited was immediately obvious. Bolivia is much poorer and everyone looks more indigineous and traditional. The women wear long skirts, shawls and bowler hats! The people are all short (I am taller than most of them!) and broad chested due to the altitude. The majority of the landscape we have driven through is bare, barren and mountainous, interspersed with rural villages and cities that aren't very big. We had a one night stop in Tupiza where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are rumored to have been killed and then we moved onto Potosi, the highest city in the world at 4060m above sea level. We had to make sure we drank a lot of water and
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