The SW Altiplano & the highest road in the world (July 2008) |
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66 viewsKulpina K, one of the 4 villages that been dubbed as “pueblos autenticos” and where sustained tourism projects are taking place.
Villages in the altiplano normally don’t look as nice as this one!
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63 viewsRoad dusters.
Altiplano´s washboard roads may have little traffic but are very dusty indeed.
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50 viewsThere is a village somewhere is this Picture.
Human settlements are as isolated as they can get popping up on the landscape like if they were places lost in time.
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63 viewsCamping spot at Valle de las Rocas.
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61 viewsSun setting at Valle de las Rocas.
A valley above 4000m with very strange rock formations created by the strong winds that blow incessantly on the altiplano.
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54 viewsCooking breakfast on firewood.
Valle de las Rocas.
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73 viewsJoana riding her bike across the strange rock formations at Valle de las Rocas.
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72 viewsVery unusual rock formations at Valle de las Rocas.
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53 viewsArriving at yet another lost in time village of the altiplano.
Villamar was our last change to stock up on food and water before Quentena Chico a few days away.
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55 viewsAnother beautiful sunset on the wind swept and freezing cold altiplano.
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67 views“Into the wild”. This part of the altiplano was the most isolated and beautiful part of the trip in Bolivia so far. The feeling of the wilderness was overwhelming
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89 viewsJoana on her sleeping bag.
Temperatures in the altiplano at this time of the year can drop as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius.
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