From El Diario and my life: Potosí celebrates 207 anniversary Potosí celebrates today 207 years of its libertarian cry, is one of the nine departments that constitutes the territory of Bolivia. Its capital is the Potosí homonym, famous for its silver deposits, which transcended to the thesaurus or to the lexicon of the Spanish language…
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From Andes to Amazon: trekking through the Bolivian jungle; which is IN PERIL by the hand of their own government!
Sarah Gilbert writes for The Guardian: From Andes to Amazon: trekking through the Bolivian jungle The real-life hero of adventure film Jungle helped set up an ecolodge in Bolivia’s Madidi national park – a wild destination for trekkers, and a ray of light for a hunter-gatherer community under threat. Branches came crashing down and leaves…
Bolivia: on top of the world and far from the madding crowd
Craig Tansley reports for Financial Review: Bolivia: on top of the world and far from the madding crowd “Forget everything you know about Chile… you’re in Bolivia now.” Guide Erich Hochhauser’s face looks so wind-worn you could crack walnuts on his cheekbones. Backpackers are huddling in tiny shelters beside the border checkpoint, a 90 km/h gale…
Uyuni, Potosi Bolivia: Salt of the earth
Tim Johnson reports for The Globe and Mail Inc.: Salt of the earth Looking for an epic road trip? Tim Johnson finds one in the vast salt flats of Bolivia: a three-day adventure where every kilometre covered is 3,600 metres above sea level. If there’s a horizon line ahead, I don’t see it. Every time…
SKIING DURING SUMMER VACATION AT 18,000 FEET
Hadley Hammer writes for Teton Gravity Research: SKIING DURING SUMMER VACATION AT 18,000 FEET One, two, three. Keep counting. Keep moving. Up, Up, Up. Head throbbing. My stomach twists and turns like the clouds below. That’s right, the clouds are below my feet. At over 18,000 feet, it appears that everything is below me, the…
Reach Great Heights When Visiting La Paz, Bolivia
Udaipur Kiran reports: Reach Great Heights When Visiting La Paz, Bolivia South America is a continent which is a stunning mixture of the old and the new. There are so many wonderful things to see and experience in this bold and timeless land that the erstwhile traveler may feel a bit lost. Lucky for you…
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