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  • PhilSeitz98ResenärSouth- and Central America

    Second day of the Salar de Uyuni Tour

    15 februari 2023, Bolivia

    We picked up Lena in the morning at 8:30 and drove at first in a very dry area. During the drive it was harder to breathe, because of the dust of the cars.

    At first: the landscape was insane! We drove the whole day.

    We visited a rocks in a desert, which were from a volcano. Alberto, our tour guide was asked for coca leaves and he took to much😂 I really felt the altitude, but with the coca leaves it was better. Especially with the coffee coca leaves from Alberto, which were very strong 😂

    We also saw like a greener plant, which only grows above 4000m. I made there also a picture in a pig mouth haha. I really loves climbing in this areas😍

    The rocks got also “cut” with wind and water, where we also have seen “Risse” in the stones.

    We drove after that to the smelly lake(it smelled like sulfid), where a lot of flamingos were. We ate there to lunch.

    After that we saw a BIIIRD, which can only fly for 1 km each day, because he is so fat😂

    We were after that in a desert, where it was very cold and windy😂 also such an amazing view!! (Desierto Siloli)

    We drove also to a place, where we saw an animal as an mixture of an rabbit and a rat💪🏽 climbing there was also so nice!!

    The second last stop was inside of the Avaroa National Park(15€), the Laguna Colorada. This lake should be red& the flamingos eat there stuff, then they turn pink hehe.

    Overnight we stayed in the cold National park after a nice dinner.    Läs mer

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  • PhilSeitz98ResenärSouth- and Central America

    Last day of the tour

    16 februari 2023, Bolivia

    We woke up at 4:00 to drive after breakfast at 5:00 to see the sunrise at a geyser. It was really amazing to see this geysers. (Wasserdampf & an der Quelle bis zu 280 Grad, 5000m)
    After that we drove to a hot spring at 4500m, which was 38 degree warm. Especially after the night and the coldness during the sunrise it was amazing to relax there with an amazing view!! (Termas de Polques)

    We made after that a stop at the Salvador Dali's Desert. Nice colors in the desert!

    After that we drove to the Laguna verde (green) and the Laguna Blanca.

    We crossed after that the border and now we are staying for approximately 4 days in the Atacama dessert. There is one of the lest light and dirty pollution of the worldX that’s the reason why a lot of international observatories are.

    I really enjoyed staying in the Salar the Uyuni and to see the beautiful landscapes there. First hot spring as well as geyser in my life.

    The rest of the day we chilled at our kot social hostel & cooked in the evening. We also played two nice drinking games from Lena and Charlotte and went out. This will be the last place together with Lena, Charlotte and Jana 🥲    Läs mer

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  • PhilSeitz98ResenärSouth- and Central America

    Chilling and more or less planning

    16 februari 2023, Chile

    We slept out and chilled quiet long at the hostel. After that we went to Lena’s breakfast and played some cards there, which I really enjoyed with my cappuccino.

    Chile is still very expensive at accommodations and food, so I am happy, that I only was in summary for ~2 weeks there. (Chiloe, Valparaiso, vina del mar & Torres des Paine is missing there🤷🏽‍♂️)

    After booking a stargazing tour (Highlight of myself here, because the air pollution is here very less & one of the biggest observatories of the world are there) and renting a car for Sunday, Lena, Charlotte and myself ate nice ice.

    I also wanted to book my bus ticket to the next place in Bolivia, but is was harder as I excepted. We will see, how it works at the end. (In the south of Bolivia the bus Companies are striking, but It was not the case in the evening even more).

    Also our stargazing tour was cancelled.

    We played a game after cooking in the hostel, but because I felt not good, I went early to bed.    Läs mer

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  • PhilSeitz98ResenärSouth- and Central America

    Bike cycling & hiking, food & karaoke

    18 februari 2023, Chile

    Today we rented a bike at the hostel to explore the north of San Pedro de Atacama. Unfortunately Jana felt the las t days sick, she decided not to go with us.

    So we went to the quebreda del diabolo by bike after crossing a river and walked/hiked to a viewpoint. Wow, the nature is different to the roadtrip and Uyuni and it really looked as in the moon. Getting to the viewpoint was very exhausting for us.

    Because all girls are veggie, we went AGAIN to a veggi restaurant. BUT I really enjoyed my falafel. Humus is still NOT MY CUP OF TEA. During the dinner, our stargazing tour was again cancelled.🥲

    So we went to a karaoke bar, had one drink, sang dance with somebody and danced a little bit.

    After that I had an interesting conversation with Lena, because I think I will be in the same situation as herself in 2-3 year.    Läs mer

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  • PhilSeitz98ResenärSouth- and Central America

    Unlucky day with an unexpected end!

    19 februari 2023, Chile

    After a short night we woke up early to rent our car to explore Valle de La Luna and the Lagunas Escondidas de Baltinache. We already booked a online ticket for Valle de La Luna.

    Unfortunately we were unlucky with our car rental and we were not able to rent a car. It was also Sunday, so we did not get any taxi driver and no uber and cab drove. I was very frustrated, because these were two big highlights of my trip.. also for renting a bike was to late at that time, because for the entry of Valle de La Luna you need to be there before 11 with the bike. Fucking shit.

    So we made the best of our day and our hostel guide drove us to a swimming pool close by, where we could only enter, when you have an Chilean money transfer system. 🤦🏼‍♂️We asked people so it went out good.

    We chilled there till the evening (except Lena, she went before) and cooked some pasta with avocado and tomato Sauce again.

    We already expected, that our stargazing tour will be cancelled again, BUT IT WASN‘T!! The first tour after 20 days our guide told us. We were so happy and ate fastly our dinner.

    At first we got some Basis information about astronomy with snacks and after that we were able to look trough telescopes. I saw the mars closer, as well as colourful stars and a dusty cloud, where behind is another universe. To see the stars trough a telescope was sooooooo amazing!! (but I needed to get in touch with looking trough the telescope as well)

    After that we made some pictures with the camera of them. The tour was quiet nice!

    Unfortunately I had to say goodbye to Lena already, because she is going in the morning to salta. What a pitty, but after the days in Atacama, we/all of us are very excited and happy, that we can travel alone again. (Also other routes). These kind of bigger groups include a lot of compromise, but we still had an amazing time!!!

    The plan is to book a ticket tomorrow for oruro and go to Sucre. Maybe this takes more time as I want, but it will work out somehow.    Läs mer

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  • PhilSeitz98ResenärSouth- and Central America

    Transfer day to Bolivia + Uyuni Pictures

    20 februari 2023, Chile ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    Today in the morning I booked my transfer to Bolivia (Calama —> Oruru). If I will stay there there, is depending on the buses to Sucre.
    Otherwise I should have to stay two more nights in San Pedro, but I am taking this effort now 😂🙈 buses are driving bad currently to Uyuni, that’s the reason why I need to take this indirection way now.

    I had to say goodbye to Charlotte and Jana after Lena 🥲 everyone is going to another country again. I had such a great time with this company, but I am looking forward to solo travelling again!

    Jess got a job als IT project management consultant in Regensburg, which impresses me also to get a higher job compared to a comfort zone job in Neumarkt.

    + pictures Charlottes Camera    Läs mer

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  • PhilSeitz98ResenärSouth- and Central America

    Short Stop in Ururo

    21 februari 2023, Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    After 16h of bus transfer I arrived in Oruro and I am taking an overnight bus to Sucre at 22:30 this night.
    It was very cold at night and we waited from 6:30-10:30 to border, which was very annoying. Also the seat of the person in front of my was damaged, so he leaned the whole drive to my knees, which was not comfortable.😂 But I slept ~11h of the drive I would say, so it was ok.

    I have seen shortly now Oruro, tupiza and Uyuni in Bolivia and now I know why this the poorest country in South America. Buildings/ houses are in a bad condition, mostly sanded streets and I hope Sucre/La Paz will be nicer🙈

    Also in the accommodation I booked for safety in Oruro, if there is no bus at the national holiday of Bolivia (today) to Sucre, would have been fully booked out. So I am Lucky to catch a bus at 22:30 today. I will arrive at 5:30.

    I ate a very nice bife the chorizo before I went to the bus station.

    Today the carnival in Oruro will be over, but it is still a lot of waterboms and spray here😂 funny. It decided very aware to skip the carnival everywhere and not to see much him, because to book everything shortly before would be crazy expensive. As well as the flight to Rio would be ~350€ one way.

    To be honest, the last few days were with a lot of bad luck connected and the transfer now with two overnight buses is also not the best. Sometimes this happens at traveling, but I would wish myself to have a better time soon.

    At least I got in touch with Sebastian and I „spoke“ with him in Spanish. Very nice guy:))    Läs mer

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  • PhilSeitz98ResenärSouth- and Central America

    Arriving in sucre

    22 februari 2023, Bolivia ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    I arrived in Sucre at 7:30. after breakfast in the hostel, I bought a SIM card and went to the barber. After that I visited the Casa de la Libertad Museum, where the independence signature of Bolivia was signed 1825. I also learned about the history of Bolivia.

    In 1879 during carnival Chile attacked Bolivia and they got the atacama desert. With the help of Peru, Bolivia is now the only country without an connection to a sea.
    I also bought new socks, because all of mine are very damaged 😂 also I made laundry.
    I joined also a free walking tour, where I met Damian (German) and a Russian couple living in New Jersey.

    Sucre is also called the White City because of all its white buildings. Sucre is small but nice, but not soo much to do.

    Our local guide was amazing of the free walking tour. We ate some local fruits, tried chocolate, drunk the national corn drink (not so good haha).

    (An Eifel tower 2.0 with a lot France imported things are in one park, there was a rich mine family who sponsernd that and they loved France 😂)
    (Putcha Mama: they say it before drinking & put a little bit on the ground to show their appreciate to the Mother Nature.)

    We also saw the night sky over Sucre.

    I the evening I played Beer long with Damian and had a nice time at our social hostel.    Läs mer

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  • PhilSeitz98ResenärSouth- and Central America

    Chilling in Sucre

    23 februari 2023, Bolivia ⋅ 🌧 23 °C

    In the morning I went after breakfast to an viewpoint close to the Central plaza, where I enjoyed my coffe.

    I bough also coca chocolate, which was the tour guide of yesterday recommended and it was really good.

    After having an longer phone call with Isi, I went playing football with the hostel. We played against Bolivianos and it was harder to play in this altitude. They called me Oliver Kahn😂also my shoes got more damaged, so I think I need to buy new ones 😂 it looked a fifa street there and I really enjoyed playing football after a long time (Argentina guy, Japan guy & chilini 😂)

    I had with Damian a nice pizza and we met spontaneous the Italian girl from the hostel in a bar😎 she met Martin (Bolivia) at her dinosaur tour today.

    Tomorrow I will go early with Damian and Martin to potosi to do the mine tour in potosi.    Läs mer

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  • PhilSeitz98ResenärSouth- and Central America

    Arriving, Museum and Mine tour, only WOW

    24 februari 2023, Bolivia ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

    Unser Tag:

    We woke up early to drive 3h to Potosi. After Martin, Damian and myself booked a tour (+2 Dutchis) and we went to Casa de la Moneda. This museum is a coin museum and with our tour there we learned about coin production (especially during the colonialism).

    Nach dem Museum haben wir eine traditionelle miner-Suppe ohne Fleisch (Mais, Kalaphurka) gegessen.
    Um 14:30 haben wir eine Minen Tour gestartet, wobei unser Guide David war, der auch bei Galileo schon war!!
    Abends sind wir mit den Holländern essen gegangen und sind früh ins Bett.

    To the history of Potosi:

    The Spain people mined the silver (more the slavers and the Incas for them) in Potosi after exploring the city. Potosi was the wealthiest city during the colonialism! The slaves mined 1-4m(!!) silver lines, which is immens. Now they are only 10cm big…
    Then they produced coins with that silver or made barrels of that. (At first (1575-1773) they made the coins with the hand and then with machines. (At first the machines were operated with 16 slavers and after that with horses).

    Die in potosi geprägten coins hatten ein Logo, welches dem aktuellen USD Logo ähnelt!! Für mich hat sich mit diesem Tag ein Kreis geschlossen mit dem Silber-Prozess und der Kolonisation:

    Mit dem Zug Museum von Uyuni wurde mir erzählt, dass von Potosí nach Uyuni und dann nach Chile Silber und coins transportiert wurden. In Chile wurden Schiffe nach Spanien mit den Silber und coins verschickt, wobei einige Schiffe untergegangen sind. Die Bolivianer haben 1 coin für das Museum des gefundenen Schiffes bekommen. 🥹

    Außerdem heißt es, dass so viel Silber verschafft wurde, dass man damit eine Brücke von Potosí bis nach Madrid bauen könnte. Verrückt!!

    Außerdem haben wir in dem Museum viele Mineralien gesehen, was mich sehr beeindruckt hat!

    Zu davids (tour guide) Vergangenheit:

    Er wollte studieren, aber sein Opa wollte das er hier in der mine arbeitet. (Viele Arbeiten ab dem Alter von 16-17 schon hier) Als sein Papa krank wurde, musste er mit seinen Brüdern länger und härter arbeiten um den Aufenthalt seines Vaters im Hospital zu bezahlen.
    Es rentiert sich auch es nicht mehr zu mimen hier laut David, da alles schon ausgenommen wurde von den spaniern.

    Ich war sehr bedrückt zu sehen, dass diese Leute keine andere Chance im Leben haben außer die unrentable minenarbeit, obwohl sie mehr verdienen als der Durchschnitt der Bolivianer.

    Zur Tour:
    Wir haben eine mine besucht, die 1545 entdeckt wurde von den spaniern.

    Wir sind mit voller minen Kleidung durch die engen Gänge gegangen und ein Highlight war von der einen zur anderen mine zu kriechen und krachseln (20m). Außerdem war der Staub schlimm und die Arbeitsbedingungen sind hier sehr hart.Außerdem erleiden fast alle an Krankheiten nach Arbeiten in dieser mine.

    David Papa redet außerdem seit ewigkeiten davon, dass er auf eine Riesen Silber Linie Stößt, was fast schon fanatisch ist. Viele denken so, was David nicht versteht, da alles schon ausgenommen wurde. Ich hatte nur durch gehen durch diese minen schon (starke) Atem Probleme mit meinem Tuch. Unvorstellbar zu bohren oder Wagons zu schieben. Wir haben einige Minen Arbeiter gesehen, die sehr am schwitzen waren. David war Bohrer und hat uns gezeigt wie krass schlimm er manchmal atmet während dem bohren.
    Nach 4h war die Tour vorbei.

    Zusammenfassend war ich negativ erstaunt über die Geschichte der Minen (er kennt 9), die Arbeitsbedingungen, die folgenden Krankheiten und dass es keine Arbeitsalternativen hier gibt.

    Weil mich alles so hier fasziniert hat und der Kreis sich geschlossen hat, wollte ich beim Schreiben ausholen.    Läs mer

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