Get high on Bolivia, just take the time to acclimatize!
The altiplano culture of Bolivia hasn’t granted it immunity from the musical and cultural pleasures washing over many people of the continent. Cumbia Boliviano blares out from cafes and clubs from La Paz to Santa Cruz, but the dulcet tones of Quechua and Aymara are still to be heard as the country hurtles into the 21st century.
This is a country not exclusively mummified in an Inca wonderland although evidence of Spanish rule are everywhere to behold. Potosi’s Cerro Rico silver mountain is still there, the salt flats of Uyumi make for a fascinating visit as does the town of Copacabana perched on the edge of the mystical lake Titicaca. There is even a “salt” hotel that is bookable if you want!
After arriving in La Paz, 30 hours is the acclimatising period for most and then afterwards you can see people living on shear mountainsides in altitude so acute that official football matches are deemed too strenuous to be played at such an altitude! The altitude can literally take your breath away, but as ever the people are the country and the Bolivianos are more hospitable than most and easy people to talk with and to have a laugh with too… but don’t talk about football with them though!!
Day 1: Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, transfer to the hotel and visit the city of Santa Cruz, one of the most dynamic places in Bolivia
Day 2: Sucre
After breakfast transfer to the airport and a short flight to the town of Sucre to Bolivia’s administrative capital, a proud place and also a UNESCO sponsored cultural heritage site. Here are wide boulevards fringed with grand houses attesting to this place’s aspirations of usurping La Paz as seat of government
Day 3: Potosí
Your morning will be free to wander around Potosí’s world renowned architecture. In the afternoon you’ll be transferred to Potosí, also a UNESCO sponsored cultural heritage site
Day 4: Potosí
You’ll be taken to the Cerro Rico silver mine, the most extensive in South America, if going down the mine isn’t for you then the regal buildings of Potosí remembering you’re still halfway up towards the stars! Spending the night in Potosí
Day 5: Uyuni
After breakfast you’ll be taken on a private transfer from Potosi to Uyuni taking six hours where en-route you’ll be passing through an former silver mine of Pulacayo
Day 6: Tahua
Within the district of Uyuni and Colchani visit a family run salt business, journey to the the Isla Incahuasi in the middle of the salt lake, hike up to the summit among the island’s cacti, traverse the salt desert to Tahua. Spending the evening and night at the Salt Hotel at Tahua
Days 7-8: La Paz
After marvelling how you slept with so much salinity you’ll be transferred to la Paz, a 3 hour ride away
Day 9: Transfer or Return
After breakfast a transfer to the airport for an international flight back to the UK
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