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Chiflon Qaqa tour - The ascent
16 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ 🌧 10 °C
After staying at the falls for about 15-20 minutes, we started the steep ascent to the top of the canyon via a different route. The views as had been the trend since morning were truly amazing.
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Chiflon Qaqa tour - Views at the top
16 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ 🌧 10 °C
At the top of the canyon, we actually saw the hills around Toro Toro. These were the same hills that we had seen in the pre-Inca paintings below in the canyon.
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Chiflon Qaqa tour - More dinosaur prints
16 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ 🌧 10 °C
A few meters walk from the canyon top, we came to a region which was rich with dinosaur prints. Tgey were spread all over the flat plain. Where ever the top soil had been eroded, the stone below jad dinosaur prints. It was just mind blowing how many of th were there.Baca lagi
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Chiflon Qaqa tour - Tankar Pampa
16 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ 🌧 10 °C
As we walked further, we came across a most unique and amazing natural stone formations spread out over a large area. These seem to have been blasted into the current shape by wind and samd erosion. It really was a beautiful sight and in the light of the setting sun it looked surreal.Baca lagi
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Chiflon Qaqa tour - Dinosaur fossils
16 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
After the Tankar Pampa, we came across another area which was rich in dinosaur footprints and even fossils.
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Pengembara Bring home if you meet any of those ;)
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Chiflon Qaqa tour - Back to the village
16 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
By the time we started the walk back to the village, the time was almost 5 pm. The drizzle had continued all the while. From the top, we could see the rain clouds pouring down on the hills nearby. We also got a beautiful rainbow to end the tour with.
We took about 30 min to reach back the village. In the late evening, it started pouring pretty heavily and continued well into the night. There were streams of water flowing everywhere when we went out to have dinner around 8:30 pm. We were thinking that if we had left the Chiflon Qaqa tour for the next day, it may not have been possible due to the heavy rain that would have made the dry riverbed into an actual running river.Baca lagi
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Pengembara woww amazing view with the rainbow
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Siete Vueltas Tour - start
17 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Today we had planned to go to the full day tour of the Umajalanta Caves anx and the Itas formations, but neither of us woke up at 6 in the morning. We were extremely tired and continued sleeping till 10 am. After waking up we decided to have some breakfast and then take a half day tour of Seite Vueltas. It a tour up a hill to show the fossils of the marine animals and shells found near Toro Toro.
The tour would being at 1:30 pm so we had time. We came back to the hostel and washed our clothes.
At 1:30 pm, we started with our guide Timoteo towards one of the hills outside the town.Baca lagi
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Siete Vueltas Tour - going back in time
17 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
As we started climbing the hill, we started crossing the layers that had been uplifted and turned. It was like a walk back into the time. With each layer, we could see the details of the era from the time that layer was created. As we moved higher, the layers came from deeper amd hence the fossils also from an older period.Baca lagi
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Pengembara Remarkable !
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Pengembara Woow amazing preservation !
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Siete Vueltas Tour - 1st fossil area
17 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Deep into the hill in the valley was a huge collection of aquatic fossils. The whole layer runs for about 30 kms across many of the hills nearby. Its a protected area.
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Siete Vueltas Tour - 2nd fossil area
17 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
We climbed a bit higher and reached the 2nd major cash area for the marine fossils.
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Siete Vueltas Tour - to the top
17 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
After coming down a bit, we were supposed to take an alternate route back to the village. There we decided to also go to the top of the peak we were passing. It was a steep ascent at some of the places and there was no fixed path to go up.Baca lagi
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Siete Vueltas Tour - At the top
17 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
It was hard work reaching the top, but the viees were magnificent.
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Siete Vueltas Tour - The descent
17 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
The descent was a steep scrambling down the nearly vertical face of the cliff.
As we reached the bottom of the hill, we noticed the heavy clouds coming in from the other side of the hill. There was a lot of thunder as well. We quickened our pace to reach back the hostel to remove the clothes we had washed in the afternoon.Baca lagi
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The hail and downpour
17 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
We reached the hostel just in time. The rain had not started yet. The clouds were rolling in. We rushed to the terrace to remove the clothes and just in time. Within 5 min of our coming down it stared raining.
We decided to have our food at the community food area opposite the hostel.
As we started eating, the rain became a heavy downpour and soon there were hailstones. The heavy rain and hailstones lasted for about 20-30 minutes not before the whole area outside was covered in water and hailstones.
The 2 girls (most probably the daughters of the lady from whose stall I had eaten) came and sat with us waiting for the rain to subside.
After the rain stopped for a while, we went back to the hostel to rest and sleep for the night.Baca lagi
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Cuidad de Itas
18 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Cuidad de Itas in the Ghurini language means the city of the rocks. Its a place high up in the mountains made of natural rock formations. It was used by robbers to snatch bulls and cattle and hide them there. They used to multiply them there and butcher the older ones for bartering of goods with the villagers around the area.
The tour normally is combined with the Umajalanta cave tour that happens to be in the same direction. They can take max 6 people in a group.
We reached the tourist office by 7:30 am and started waiting for other people to show up so that we could divide the costs of the tour.
We waited more than 1.5 hrs. 3 groups of people came that were interested in the same tours, but all had formed their groups from before so nome of the them joined us nor could we join them.
In the end, around 9:15 am, we decided to do the tour on our own since no more people were expected to come and it was our last day in Toro Toro.
The tour cost a total of 576 b$ for the 2 of us.Baca lagi
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Itas - walk to the back of the stones
18 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
The Itas is basically a collection of natural stone carvations at the top of the hill
There are many interesting formations in the shape of caves and natural arches. From the start of the boulders to the emd of the trail is abou 1 kms. There is a small cave at the start of the trek but there were people inside there so we decided to go to the end first.
On the way, we saw some lovely flowers that had bloomed due to the rains in the last 2 evenings. Our guide Timoteo told is that these from the family of onions. On the way we saw some interesting stone shapes as well.Baca lagi
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Itas - a bird's eye view
18 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
At the end of the trek, we climbed up a narrow path between two boulders. From the top was a magnificent view of the canyon where the robbers used to hide the cattle.
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Itas - The 1st cavernous formations
18 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
From the top, we climbed down into the canyon. There were many catedral like cavernous formations beautiful carved out by thousands of years of erosion. The sunlight reflecting from the floor below gave it a very magical effect.Baca lagi
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Itas - The 2nd chamber
18 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
We continued further into the formations amd came to the 2nd chamber formed by erosion. Here too, the effect of the light was mesmerizing on the smooth surfaces of the rocks.
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Pengembara It is very strange that the interiors of caves are so smooth & beautifully profiled as if some sculpture has done this amazing job.
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The Craze for Travelling Its millions of years of hard work 😉
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Pengembara Very cool !
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Itas - The elephant formation
18 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Outside of the 2nd chamber, we saw a natural elephant formation made from erosion. Even the outer surface of the head amd the trunk looked exactly as the texture of an elephant's skin.
Further on, we saw some interesting passages and grottos.Baca lagi
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Itas - The exit
18 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
A few meters further we found ourselves in the mid of the canyon. From there a narrow passageway led us out of the fairytale land.
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Pengembara You are moving like snakes & reptiles in these rocks.😀
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The Craze for Travelling It was a very cool experience
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Itas - Cave paintings
18 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
On the trek back, we saw some cave painting on a flat wall of a boulder. The painting was made most probably from the blood of a sacrificial animal. The guide told us the age of the paintings to be from 15000 BC. I'm not sure about that claim though.
A bit further, we reached the 3rd chamber.Baca lagi
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Itas - 3rd chamber
18 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
The 3rd chamber looked small from outside but was huge inside. The was a beautiful ray of light falling right in the middle of the chamber making it into a magical place. There was also a bridge like stone formation at the top that the locals call Inca's dick.Baca lagi
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Itas - 4th chamber
18 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
A bit further was the 4th chamber with similar erosion formations. There was also water inside so we got some amazing pictures.
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Pengembara Amazing picture
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PengembaraThis is most exotic,beautiful sculptured by nature cave.
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The Craze for Travelling Thanks. It was taken by our guide
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The Craze for TravellingAbsolutely agree. It was breathtaking
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Itas - 5th chamber
18 Oktober 2017, Bolivia ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
The 5th chamber had some deep formations almost like a cave but there was a small opening in the innermost chamber giving it a very mystical feel.
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Pengembara Hide & seek by light or by................darkness😇😇
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