Destinations Visited
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La PazLa Paz is situated in a narrow bottom of a canyon surrounded by Andean mountains, snow covered peaks and volcanoes, what makes its scenery mystic and unique in the world. It’s Bolivia's administrative center, as well as its most populated state department. Over the last 20 years its population has doubled and is estimated today at nearly 1,3 million people. It is the highest capital in the world (located at 3,580 meters/ 11,740 feet above sea level), where people apparently never stop selling food and walking up and down the endless thin streets from the foot to the top of the city. You will find an incredible mixture of Bolivian poor people dressed in traditional colorful clothes, business men, churches and places, colonial and modern buildings, interesting museums, and innumerous markets with the most famous “Witch market” where you can buy dried llama fetuses or the rarest species of potions you have ever seen in your life. The geographical location causes cold temperatures during the nights in La Paz, although the day sun keeps usually strong during the whole year. La Paz has a good tourist infrastructure with many good restaurants, hotels and travel agency to various attractions close to the city. Some of the most famous trips are the steeply falling jungle road to the little town “Coroico” in the Yungas”, the blue-colored “Lake Titicaca”, the Cordillera highlands and the ruins of “Tahuanaco” or “Tiwanacu”. |
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Santa CruzSanta Cruz is one of the wealthiest cities of Bolivia with a population of 1,1 million inhabitants. Since the 1970, Santa Cruz was famous for its Colombian- Bolivian cocaine trade. Until today this characteristic still exists, but Santa Cruz experienced as well a big agricultural boom with large plantations of sugarcane, rice, cotton and soybean. The plantations were built on the lowlands east of the city and brought many new settlers and new investments into the city. Santa Cruz people are proud about this new success. |
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SucreSucre, with a population of about 185,000 inhabitants, is located in a picturesque valley at an altitude of 2700 m (8,900 ft). It is one of the most peaceful and pleasurable cities in Bolivia with an European flavor architecture and a lovely warm climate in the region. Offering the most beautiful setting in Boliva as it is often described; the sleepy town is surrounded by the gigantic snowcapped peaks of “Illampú” (6362m/20,867ft) and “Ancohuma” (6427m/21,080ft). There are a lot of interesting places to visit in the city like the Cathedral and “Chapel of Guadalupe”, the “Casa de la Libertad” with colonial artifacts related to Bolivian independence, the three universities with the university museum and “Immaculada Convent”, with a little shop for handicrafts. Another sight worth to see are the ruins of “Calle-Calle” in the “Zudanez” neighborhood. |
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PotosiThe cold and windy city Potosi is the highest city of the world at 4,690 meters (15,380 ft). During the colonization period it was one of the richest and most beautiful cities in the world filled with plenty of churches and colonial buildings. Today the wealth of the city has gone but still has left a fascinating spirit in the colonial, narrow winding streets. In the city can be visited the interesting Money museum “Casa de Moneda”, which was partially constructed with material from the “Gran Chaco”, a region which is about 400 km (250 miles) away. A close silver mine was responsible for its prosperity during the 16th - century. Until today cooperative-run mines work in the humid, muddy corridors filled with noxious gases. Tourist Agencies offer excursions in the mines which are highly recommended as you will understand personally the hard reality of the miners. This excursion is probably one of the most remarkable experience of your travels in Bolivia, you can get. |
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Salar de Uyuni“Salar de Uyuni” consists of a vast and cold region with dry salt lakes, snow-covered mountains and different colored lakes ranging from red to green and blue and various species of flamingo. It consists of a vast area of 12,000 sq km (4680 sq mi) saltpan at an altitude of 3650m (11,970ft). The salt lakes have gone forever but left an immense area of a thick crust of salt which make it possible to drive on by car and visit the natural wonder of this area during several days. During centuries, inhabitants used to sell the salt using traditional manufacturing methods. Their salt production delivers today an amount of about 19,700 tones a year, but the reserves still contain probably about 10 billion tons of fine salt. The “Salar de Uyuni” is a beauty without comparison in the earth. Its loneliness offers fantastic views of an endless sky in an absolutely peaceful and harmonic environment. A special highlight in this area is the “Isla de Pescadores” which possesses enormous stands of cactus in the middle of the saltpan. Excursions are best organized from the nearby, desert village “Uyuni”, where you can choose different kinds of trips to this fascinating salt lake. |
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Lake TiticacaFor sure, the lake, with its crystal-clear and apparently untouched waters, is one of the must-see attractions in Bolivia as its colors change constantly from dawn to dusk, depending on the clouds and the angle of the sun. Lake Titicaca is at 3,800 meters (12,507 feet) the highest navigable lake of the world. It reaches immense dimensions: a length of 233km (145mi) from northwest to southeast and a width of 97km (60mi) from northeast to southwest with the maximum depth of 280 meters (918 foot). Theses measures combine an area of unbelievable size of 8,300 square kilometers (3,240 square miles). The lake possesses many small bays and 36 islands, including the legendary “Islas del Sol” and “Islas de la Luna”, two islands in the lake, famous sites of the Inca's creation myths. Hundreds of centuries it has already been the focus of human settlement in Bolivia as the living conditions in terms of climate and food (good agriculture and fishing possibilities around the sea) are much better than in the rest of the Bolivian high plateau “Altiplano”. |
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