horse riding 3

Tupiza

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July 25th 2010
We'd booked a bus in Uyuni to Tupiza for the following morning at 8am although it did not leave until after nine so we had an hour of waiting around in the freezing cold. An hour out of Uyuni on the desolate dirt road to Tupiza, we stopped to change a tyre as seems to be the norm on all Bolivian bus trips but this one had a new surprise- there was no spare tyre or inner tube. We were annoyed at ... read more

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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