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My trip in Peru&Bolivia

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  • Iris van RijnbachMy trip in Peru&BoliviaTraveler
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    Salar de Uyuni: part 1

    November 18, 2017 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    We went for a 3 days tour, starting in the city of Uyuni, one of the most important minery cities of south America. We were in a 4x4 car with our great guide Jaime, a couple from Tunisia, Juultje, Ross, Nacho and me.

    The first day we drove through a salt desert for hours were we took of these funny pictures . We passed part of the route of the Dakar rally, went to a cactus Island in the middle of the salt dessert, see a beautiful sunset and sleep in a salt hotel to finish the day!! Nacho felt sick due a food infection, that is why he was mainly in the car and not in the pictures!    Read more

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    Salar de uyuni: part 2 - the other world

    November 19, 2017 in Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    We started the second day visiting couple of blue lagoons (situated 4200m above sea level). There we saw different species of flamengos and birds.
    After an amazing lunch seeing one of the flamengos lake we drove to "another planet". We visit the national park of "Reserva Nacional de Fauna Andina Eduardo Avaroa" were we found amazing landscapes like a huge red lagoon, geisers inside of an old volcano's crater . It was so cool to see all these things.
    We finished the day in the best possible way , after dinner we walked from our hostel to some hot springs were the water was at 39° meanwhile the outside temperature was around 0°!! From the hot springs we could see the sky full of stars. We saw falling stars and got a lesson from Jaime about the sky constellations ,it was amazing!!

    Luckily after a good night of sleep Nacho felt better and he enjoyed the day a lot.    Read more

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    El Alto

    November 21, 2017 in Bolivia ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    We arrived at 6am in La Paz on Tuesday, after a 10 hour drive from Uyuni (the south of Bolvia, where we were on the border with Chile). Nacho and Iris didn't sleep much, because they were used to better buses (and Iris had to pee but the toiletdoor couldn't open haha). Roos and Juul slept good because their previous bus was even worse than this one. So when we came to the Wild Rover Hostel (which is a crazy party hostel), we decided to sleep some hours. We rested and felt ready for the day.

    We already did a free tour in La Paz, so we decided to make one in El Alto, which is a city next to (almost connected to) La Paz. It has 2 million people (La Paz only 1 even though it looks huuuge). It is really high, therefore called, El Alto.

    We went to the witch market, where they sell dead baby lamas for sacrifices, they read your life by coca leaves and many more creapy stuff.
    They really believe in a lot of things. When you "destroy" pachamama (mother earth in Quechua language), you need to sacrifice something. Small houses, animals. What do you think they do for skyscrapers? Yess, a human. Freaky right? They intoxicate a homeless person and when he is so drunk, they will burn him alive and put his ashes under the ground of the building, that is going to be built. It is so scary, but true. Superstitious in Bolivia! Pachamama.

    We took the telecabine up to this city. There are 5 in the entire city and transfers thousands of people daily. It is their way of transport, a metro is not possible to built in this city that is built in a valley.
    The telecabine is a present from the government and offcourse built by an Austrian company. Sometimes bit scary for Iris, but in general really cool.

    The cemetery is in La Paz, it is the biggest in Bolivia.    Read more

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    Lesson

    November 24, 2017 in Bolivia ⋅ 🌫 5 °C

    Oké. Now we really have learned our lesson. We left 2 hours in advance of our flight and came too late because the traffic in La Paz was crazy! We arrived 35 min in advance. In Copenhagen they always let us go through the fast lane, so we make it in time. But in South America they are not so so flexible haha..

    For the last 4 years we fly almost once a month and now we act like we are taking a bus. Well, that needs to stop now haha!

    Luckily they just changed our flight to one day later and we don't need to pay extra. We slept in a terrible hotel next to the airport, but we slept really deep, 8 hours in a row because we were so tired.

    Now we have 12 hours to explore Lima, before we take the plane to Madrid!

    We found out that the Dutch/Spanish couple that we met in Puno, is on the same flight (how coincidence!)    Read more

    Trip end
    November 24, 2017
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