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Bolivia home | Santa Cruz | Sucre | Tarija | Potosi | Uyuni | La Paz | Lake Titicaca
| Santa Cruz | Sucre | Tarija | Potosi | Uyuni | La Paz | Lake Titicaca |
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Santa Cruz was our first city in Bolivia, having come
from Corumba in Brazil on the so-called Death Train featured on a BBC television programme. |
From Santa Cruz, we took a bus to Sucre, Bolivia's constitutional capital. | After a few days, we moved on to Potosi (as a staging point for a few hours) and Tarija, in Bolivia's wine region. |
We returned to Potosi and this turned out
to be one of the highlights of Bolivia in spite of earlier impressions that it was "a slag heap" as noted in our diary at the time. |
Our next port of call was Uyuni, undoubtedly the highlight of Bolivia because of the tour onto the altiplano, including the largest salt flats in the world, where we remained at high altitude (4,200m to 5,800m) for four days. | After Uyuni, we dropped to 2500m at Cochabamba for a few days at a lower altitude then moved on to La Paz, Bolivia's administrative capital. We were lucky enough to arrive the day before the annual carnival - apparently the largest in Bolivia. |
Finally, we left La Paz to spend
a few days in Batallas and Copacabana on the shores of Lake Titicaca before hopping on a bus to get to Puno in Peru. |
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Arrived 6th May 1995 |
Arrived 11th May 1995 |
Arrived 16th May 1995 |
Arrived 23rd May 1995 |
Arrived 27th May 1995 |
Arrived 17th May 1995 | Arrived 12th June 1995 Departed 17th June 1995 |
| Note: We made a very bad decision (on cost grounds alone as we were on a very tight budget) not to replace our main SLR camera (which failed in Java) on the round-the-world trip that included this six week segment in Bolivia. We continued to use a camera, given away with something or other in the UK, which was fixed focus, fixed exposure, with a plastic lens but which seemed to provide reasonable results. In addition, all film development was carried out locally throughout the entire trip and this resulted in some poorly developed negatives which were sometimes damaged in transit to the UK. The negatives have been scanned in at various resolutions (mostly 1200 to 2400 dpi) and Photoshop Elements4 has been used to repair and enhance the resulting images. In most cases, the final quality of the photographs is very much sub-standard for which I apologise. |