Tag: Bolivia
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Official Name: Plurinational State of Bolivia Established: 6 August 1825 (Declared Independence from Spain) Population: 11,428,245 (2019 estimate) Religion: 70% Catholic, 17.2% Protestant, 9.3% No religion Language(s): Spanish Capital: Sucre (constitutional and judicial), La Paz (executive and legislative) Order of Visit: Thirty-Fourth First Visit: 18 December 2009 Last Visit: 30 December 2009 Duration: 13 Days…
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Wednesday 30 December 2009 Highlights: Cute baby llamas Getting up at 6.45 am we packed our bags and went down to breakfast. Andrew tried salt pancakes (by accident) but I thought it was funny. We caught a bus to San Pedro de Tiquina which was right on the edge of Lake Titicaca from there we…
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Tuesday 29 December 2009 Highlights: Witches Market, San Francisco Church, La Paz Cathedral, Presidential Palace, Moon valley Today sees us start the 3rd and last leg of the South American tour so later tonight we will met our new tour leader and two new tour members. Renato, Monica, Lance and Martin left today.
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Monday 28 December 2009 Highlights: Adventures on an overnight bus, Andrew failing the vindaloo challenge The overnight bus trip ended up taking 14.5 hours instead of the scheduled 12 due to the bus getting stuck in 2 different mud slides, an experience to be sure especially with my seat broken. This meant we got into…
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Sunday 27 December 2009 Highlights: Geysers, thermal baths, Laguna Colorada (red lagoon), Laguna Verde (blue/green lake) Today we got up at 4.15 am, I was so asleep I managed to scalp myself going to the toilet, Bolivians are not very tall and a lot of the infrastructure reflects this with low ceilings and door frames,…
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Saturday 26 December 2009 Highlights: Exploring Uyuni Desert, Flamingos After experiencing an amazing sunrise over the Salt Flats we said goodbye to our Salt Hotel and set off to explore the Uyuni Desert. The Uyuni Desert has some amazing foundations and landscape. Along the way we run across a watering hole which had some beautiful…
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Friday 25 December 2009 Highlights: Exploring the Train Cemetery, Seeing how Salt is extracted, Exploring the Salt Flats, Christmas in Bolivia, Staying in a Salt Hotel Kelly was struggling due to altitude sickness and went to local hospital to receive some additional oxygen. Kelly recovered quickly but it was a reminder to us all to…
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Thursday 24 December 2009 Highlights: Travel day, watching local landscape change Leaving Potosi we caught a local long distance bus to Uyuni which took around 4.5 hours with one stop in the middle of nowhere to allow us to stretch our legs.
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Wednesday 23 December 2009 Highlights: Exploring a Potosi mine, buying dynamite, attending a Christmas event. Today we travelled for 4 hours from Sucre to mining town of Potosi stopping a few times to stretch our legs and take photos of the beautiful countryside.
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Tuesday 22 December 2009 Highlights: High altitude hike, Children’s Charity night Today was the day me and Andrew tested ourselves with a high altitude hike at 3,500 metres above sea level for 10 kms. We were both happy when Karen joined us for this hike. We met at the tour company at 8.30 am and…
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