...BOLIVIA...12 hour bus from PUNO PERU-crossing the border was real friendly and at that point we knew we were coming to a real special place-bus ride was along the shores of Lake Titicaca for 4 hours and rest was on Altiplano ,desert and through Andes with many Llamas and Alpaca and this is what every traveller in the world dreams of doing -at one point we had to cross Lake Titicaca by boat and the bus on a barge-due to 3500 plus meter altitide feeling sick is a norm until you get acclamitize but it's worth it.Very very poor country but the people and the scenery are just awesome-seeing LA PAZ high from Altiplano for the first time in the valley with houses packed on hillside is one sight you will never forget-BOLIVIA is real South America with majority of people being indigenous Indians and they are one beautiful people...
...Anyone reading this if you have couple of weeks to spare go to BOLIVIA you will love it and you will go home re-freshed-re-vitilized-re-juvinated and ready to face what ever...
... no words will do justice to describe what we saw in BOLIVIA so we are not going to use words like super,spectacular etc will just say where we went to...and we only spent 8 days in BOLIVIA -it's one place we know we are going to come back for sure with more time in very near future...
...southern Bolivian desert-spent 3 days travelling with these peole - it was like United Nation gathering -reads BOLIVIA... B :UK, O:Spain-Rebecca, L:Ecuador-Juan, I:Italy-Antonio , V: UK, I: Elisa-Venezuela, A: 3degrees from Surendranagar!...and Ilda our cook and her husband Nilfar from Bolivia of course...
...crossing Lake Titicaca in Bolivia...
...world's largest- UYUNI Salt Flat-overnight rain turned it in to a mirror-when dry it's pure white -13,000 sq km ...
...salt for commercial use being harvested... 20,000 tons per year-18,000 tons for human consumption and rest for livestock...
...the disappearing horizon... 40,000 years ago this was a lake then dried up living salt concentrations-the salt deposits are also the results of the minerals leached from the mountains and deposited here...
...jeep glides along the salt flats-where is the horizon?...
...will we see a better place than this on our journey?-don't think so!...
...us 3 against a non-existing horizon...
...bare foot on the mirrored salt flata...
...lunch being prepared by our cook Ilda-they were wife and husband partnership-Nilfar the driver and Ilda our cook-we travelled with gas cooker and the lot...lunch table and seats made from cutting of salt blocks -there are hotels and houses around here made from these blocks too...
...taken from top of our jeep...
...salt flats...
...early morning in the desert-our very basic hostel in no man's land-our cook cooked for us 3 times a day and we ate in the open...good food too....
...cutting through Altiplano and approaching Chile and Argy borders...
... COLOURS OF BOLOVIA...
...COLOURS OF BOLIVIA...
...COLOURS OF BOLIVIA-BLUE LAGOON-due to volcanic activities...
COLOURS OF BOLVIA-CREAM LAGOON- pink flamingos at 4200m-we were above 4200m all the time and we were breathless most times...
...COLOURS OF BOLIVIA-GREEN LAGOON...
COLOURS OF BOLIVIA...Ilda preparing lunch in the desert as storm clouds gathers-saw mighty thunder and lightning show...
...COLOURS OF BOLIVIA-stone tree weathered by rain and wind...hundreds of naturally sculptured stones everywhere...
...COLOURS OF BOLIVIA-RED LAGOON-with pink flamingos...
...COLOURS OF BOLIVIA...
...COLOURS OF BOLIVIA-volcanic activity-bubbling muds of different colours and smoking earth-there are many volcanoes in Bolivia and some active too...we were in the heart of volcanoe land...
...COLOURS OF BOLIVIA-early morning sun-rise in the volcanoe land...
...COLOURS OF BOLIVIA-
...early morning natural spring bath...
...smoking Volcanoes...Cream lagoon full of poisonous Lead hence no birds around...we are standing in Bolivia-right of us is Chile-left of us is Argentina-behind the Volcanoe is the beginning of the great Atacama Desert of Chile-we turned back from here to go back to La Paz....
...these are DALI Mountains of many colours....
...Bolivian desert...
...RED lagoon...
...old lava flow that cooled and weathered away with time...
...COLOURS OF BOLIVIA-desert graveyard for steam engines from by-gone days and there were so many...
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It's such beautiful...
I'm not sure whether is there the heaven nor the earth.
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