Tupiza

The Uyuni Salt-flats

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May 6th 2008
We arrived in Bolivia on 22 April at the dusty border town of Villazon, and immediately booked a bus north to Tupiza. Tupiza is a pleasant town, lying at an altitude of almost 3,000 metres, and ringed by an amazing landscape of rainbow-coloured rocks, hills, mountains and canyons. By the time we arrived, we had been travelling for almost eleven hours, having left Salta in Argentina before dawn ... read more

South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Salar de Uyuni

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Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and counter-coups. Comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1... ... read more