El Diario reports: In La Paz airport: Manufacturers offer Café de Altura [Coffee grown at high altitude] Producers of La Paz on Monday [10/27/2014] inaugurated the first service of Café Altura [high altitude coffee] at the International Airport of El Alto in order to provide domestic and foreign visitors the best organic and quality product….
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Interested in climbing Bolivian mountains, here is how!
Most of the world believes that Bolivia is a highland country, photos of our people living in mountains are mostly known, when in fact most of our territory is in the lowlands, in the Amazon basin, in the dry forest and Chaco region… for today we will just focus on our beautiful high mountains which…
Bolivian wines: high altitude vineyards = great wine!!
Los Tiempos reports on high quality Bolivian wines; their mainly from Tarija department, the picture to the right was taken by Carlos Lopez; Ximena Gareca displays the wines; an article written by Gary Rojas: Wines and singanis of Tarija conquered (in a short time and with specific qualities such as the aroma, flavor and technology)…
Diving world record in Titicaca accomplished!!
On November 12, I posted a news regarding the Italian initiative to dive at high altitude: https://bolivianthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/diving-in-the-highest-lake-of-the-world/ Today, Pagina Siete (Pablo Peralta) reports: The team dived 101 meters deep at Lake Titicaca. FACT: In one of the dives near the Isla del Sol team rescued three archaeological artifacts (two noggins and a third element), which were handed to the…
Diving in the highest lake of the world!
A team of Italian experts in diving and high altitude medicine are sharing their studies with the Bolivian Naval Force, in the Titicaca Lake. They have four missions: training and equipping the Navy; scientific research; cultural exploration and want to mark a record dive. The last of these points is the one that led to the arrival of the…
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