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Isla del Sol is the biggest island in Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian side. As we walked up the hill on the south side of the island in the village Yumani, we saw this man soaking up the sun just before sunset.
Photographer: Chetan Karkhanis photos.sandeepachetan.com in association with TravelMag.com
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Just one of the alien like landscapes we saw on the Salar dau Uyuni tour. It smelled of rotten eggs, the temperature of the water was around 90 degrees, the wind made it hard for us to stand there and the altitude of nearly 5500 meters made it tough for everyone to breathe!
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These women are referred to as "Cholitas" . They are of the Aymara descent. Big skirts, hair tied in two long braids and a hat are marks of their identity; as are these colourful "backpacks". Here they are carrying their wares up the port of Yumani of Isla del Sol on TIticaca island up o their houses at the top of the island.
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The second day of our tour was dominated by lagoons of colours as varied as white, blue and red. Our day ended with a visit to the
Laguna Colorodes, the red lagoon. The algae in the water here gave the lagoon its red colour - which the Andean and the Chilean flamingoes we saw preferred.
Photo is taken from El Choro Trail.
During this trail you will go down 57 km. from La Cumbre at 4,900 m. to Chairo at 1,400 m. over Cotapata National Park and Yungas Region. Usually trail is made in three days.
The Yungas is a narrow band of forest along the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains from Peru, Bolivia, and northern Argentina. It is a transitional zone between the Andean highlands and the eastern forests. Like the surrounding areas, the Yungas belong to the Neotropic ecozone; the climate is rainy, humid, and warm. The Yungas forests are extremely diverse, ranging from moist lowland forest to evergreen montane forest and cloud forests. The terrain, formed by valleys, fluvial mountain trails and streams, is extremely rugged and varied, contributing to the ecological diversity and richness. A complex mosaic of habitats occur with changing latitude as well as elevation. There are high levels of biodiversity and species endemism throughout the Yungas regions. Many of the forests are evergreen, and the South Andean Yungas contains what may be the last evergreen forests resulting from Quaternary glaciations.
Bolivia, El Choro Trail
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James’s Flamingo, also called the puna flamingo, is native to the Andes and the Altiplano area. Although they seem plentiful on the shores of Colorada, they are in fact very rare. During the mid-1950s, scientists had all but written them off as extinct, until a pack was found roaming South America. Today their habitat is continually threatened, and they are classified as a endangered species.
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The biggest salt flats on the earth, the Salar de Uyuni was the grand finale of our tour. It was the perfect end to what had been the most incredible travel experience!
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Sucre es la capital constitucional de Bolivia y capital del departamento de Chuquisaca, siendo la sede de gobierno y capital de facto, La Paz. En Sucre se resume la historia de la Bolivia colonial, desde sus orígenes más antiguos.1 2 3 4 5
Antes de la llegada de los españoles, la ciudad de Choquechaca tenía autonomía propia con respecto al Imperio inca (los charcas fueron el único pueblo que no pagó el rescate del cautivo Inca). Según datos del censo 2012, la ciudad cuenta con unos 400.000 habitantes.
El Tinku es un ritual y una danza folklórica que se realiza en norte de Potosí - Bolivia. El significado de la palabra Tinku es "encuentro" (de la palabra quechua tinkuy, encontrarse). El significado de la palabra Tinku en quechua es "encuentro" y en aymara significa "ataque físico".1 Es necesario mencionar que no debe confundirse la "Danza del tinku", cuya creación es del siglo XX con el "Ritual ceremonial del Tinku", que es de origen preinca.
Indiana Jones na Bolivia :)
Train Cemetery - Uyuni
In 1872 began the construction of the railway from Antofagasta to Bolivia, the first railway line in the country. It was used to transport raw materials such as sodium nitrate and other salts, but also metals such as copper, silver, and gold, from inland mines to port cities on the Pacific Ocean. When the railway reached Uyuni at the end of the 19th century, a railway depot was built in the town. Uyuni then became an important railway junction. Around the 1940s, the local industry collapsed and most of the precious metal mines were abandoned. As a result, the locomotives and railcars were no longer needed, were shut down and left abandoned.
There is a total of around 100 locomotives and carriages in the railway graveyard, the oldest of which date from the late 19th century.
Cementerio de Trenes - Uyuni
En 1872 se inició la construcción del Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia, la primera línea férrea de Bolivia. Se utilizaba para transportar materias primas como el nitrato de sodio y otras sales, pero también metales como el cobre, la plata y el oro, desde las minas del interior hasta las ciudades portuarias del Océano Pacífico. Cuando la vía férrea llegó a Uyuni a finales del siglo XIX se construyó un depósito ferroviario en el pueblo. Uyuni se convirtió en ese entonces en un importante nudo ferroviario. Alrededor de la década de 1940, la industria local colapsó y la mayoría de las minas de metales preciosos fueron abandonadas. Como resultado, la mayoría de las locomotoras y vagones ya no fueron necesarios, se apagaron y se dejaron en abandono.
Hay un total de alrededor de 100 locomotoras y vagones en el cementerio ferroviario, los más antiguos de los cuales datan de finales del siglo XIX.
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"Bolivian Sunset", known botanically as Seemannia sylvatica, is native to Bolivia and Peru. It also has another common name, “hardy gloxinia.” This is a stunning winter-flowering shrub that shows off sprays of bold, red-orange flowers. These blooms are a delightful contrast to its shiny, dark green foliage.
The flowers bloom for a long time from autumn to the following spring.
Laguna Colorada (Red Lagoon) is a shallow salt lake in the southwest of the altiplano of Bolivia, within Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve and close to the border with Chile.
The lake contains borax islands, whose white color contrasts with the reddish color of its waters, which is caused by red sediments and pigmentation of some algae. (Wikipedia)
Cordillera Real
Bolivia
El Nevado Illampu constituye uno de los macizos más representativos de la Cordillera Real; es de forma piramidal y cuenta con cuatro picos: Illampu I a una altura de 6368 m.s.n.m., Illampu II a 6344 m.s.n.m, IIlampu III Pico Norte a 6060 m.s.n.m. y Pico Schulze a 5943 m.s.n.m. Se encuentra en la población de Sorata que se caracteriza por tener un clima frío, el paisaje está constituido por nevados eternos en sus cumbres. Según la cosmovisión de los pueblos originarios andinos el Nevado IlIampu, es uno de los dioses mayores, llamado “Kun Tixi Wiracocha”, o el “Hacedor de las aguas”, el constructor del mundo y protector de la vida, es decir el Olimpo Andino.
Aqui se lo ve detras del lago Titicaca.
Royal Range
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Illampu is the fourth highest mountain in Bolivia. It is located in the northern section of the Cordillera Real, part of the Andes, east of Lake Titicaca. It lies just north of the slightly higher Janq'u Uma, near the town of Sorata. Laguna Glaciar, located in the Illampu-Janq'u Uma massif, is the 17th highest lake in the world.
Despite being lower than Janq'u Uma, Illampu has a steeper peak, with more local relief, and is a somewhat harder climb. In fact it has the hardest normal route on any of the 6,000 metre peaks in Bolivia.
Here is seen beyond the Titicaca lake
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We were lucky to catch this local festival when we were in Tupiza before the start of our Salar da Uyuni tour. Colourful, bejewelled
costumes, music, group dances and beer for re-energising characterised the festival which went on into the wee hours of the morning.
Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat at 10,582 square km. It is located in the Daniel Campos Province in Potosi in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes and is at an elevation of 3,656 meters above mean sea level.
Bolivia, Salar de Uyuni
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The Southwest Altiplano is undoubtedly one of the most exciting areas that Bolivia can offer. Multicolored lagoons full of thousands of pink flamingos and shy vicuna running around weathered colored volcanic hills - Laguna Hedionda, Alitplano, Bolivia
Altitude 2,000 to 3,000 m
The Cordillera Central stretches over 1,200 km in a north-south direction in central Bolivia.
Highest mountain Ciero Rico 6,500 m near Potosi
It separates the Amazon lowlands in the east from the Altiplano plateau in the west and is rich in natural resources.
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Höhenlage 2.000 bis 3.000 m
Die Cordillera Central erstreckt sich über 1.200 km in Nord-Süd-Richtung in Zentralbolivien.
Höchster Berg Ciero Rico 6.500 m bei Potosi
Sie trennt das Amazonastiefland im Osten von der Hochebene des Altiplano im Westen und ist reich an