salt & silver journey p.4 - Jeep Tour 4
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New Year - and my birthday.I never celebrated it so far away from my homeland. And never I had such a good birthday!
We woke up at 4:30am to drive without breakfast to the "sol de la mañana", aもっと詳しく
New Year - and my birthday.I never celebrated it so far away from my homeland. And never I had such a good birthday!
We woke up at 4:30am to drive without breakfast to the "sol de la mañana", aもっと詳しく
Still the same day!
The last destination for this day was the "laguna colorado", a brown-red lagoon which gets his color by algae. You could find a lot flamencos there! It was forbidden to walk intoもっと詳しく
Alpacas and lagoons!
After driving for some hours, we reached a small oasis with an alpaca-farm. Sweet animals with one advantage to lamas: they dont spit so much!
Then we drove to the "lagunaもっと詳しく
We started to drive through the high plains of Uyuni, dry landscapes with some oases. Then we passed the "valle de la rocas", rocks by 5-30m with bizarre formations. A beautiful location you shouldもっと詳しく
Uyuni is a small city in the southwest of Bolivia. It's located in the highlands and close to the Salar de Uyuni, the worlds biggest salt lake and a unique place.
It's one of the biggestもっと詳しく
We entered the mine of Cerro Rico. Cerro Rico is the name of the impressive mountain which have a size of 4800m. Also the silver mine, which was founded there, is called "Cerro Rico". Today, it's soもっと詳しく
Potosí - once in time one of the biggest cities of the world! More then 90% of the Renaissance silver is coming out of the huge mine in this city, called Cerro Rico. Today this city is in big danger,もっと詳しく
If you wanna visit the west of Bolivia, you'll have to pass the highlands of the Andes. My hometown Santa Cruz de la Sierra in the east is at 300m above sea level. The western cites are higher thanもっと詳しく
Villamontes - our last stop of this journey. We spent just 2 days there, because the average climate is officially the highest one in Bolivia. I remembered how 52 degrees made us sweat like aもっと詳しく
After some days in Tupiza without any green nature, it was a pleasure to spend some time in Tarija. This area is well known for wine and is one of the richer cities in Bolivia. We did some wineもっと詳しく