Category: Bolivia

Salar De Uyuni

This is a fabulous trip for the adventurous. I travelled from Bolivia to Chile by way of the Salir de Uyuni. We travelled through the 10582 square kilometre salt lake, past abandoned trains that have history of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid holdups, passing hot geysers spurting up from the ground and beautiful lagoons […]

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Sucre Charities

  The very excellent Centro Nanta and the many working children it helps to support. This group is not involved in politics or religion. The organisation was started in 1996 by the Church giving out milk on Sundays. Now the Commodore feeds the kids every day and gives them snacks. They are not considered street […]

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Sucre

  Bolivia is a very poor country and Sucre is its capital. Sucre is a beautiful white Colonial City and a World Heritage centre. Because of this Sucre is very much cleaner than any other city in Bolivia. Having said that the toilets are very poor and scarce. Dogs roam the city freely and inspect […]

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La Paz

  La Paz is not the Capital of Bolivia although it is the largest city in Bolivia. The roads are liable to be closed when there is a lot of rain. Potosi is the highest city in the world but La Paz is the second highest. There is a wonderful Franciscan monastery in Plaza San […]

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Tarabuco Carnival

  This is the Carnival of Pisily which is an indigenous village where everyone speaks Quechua. the people here maintain the original customs and costumes from Inca times. the activity of the region of Pisily is agriculture and work with cloth for example weaving ponchos. La Pukara is the totem pole like structure made up […]

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