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Potosi’s Ch’utillos Festival (Part 2)
Saturday dawned bright and sunny, and the Ch’utillos Festival started early with a parade around Potosi at 9am with the statue of San Bartolomé accompanied by the town’s mayor and other dignitaries,...
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Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe
To be in Sucre during the build-up to its big festival, the Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe, is to witness this normally tranquil and reserved city transform itself and embrace party fever. The fiesta...
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An Altiplano Adventure: Sajama to the Salar de Uyuni
Bolivia is one of the most geographically diverse countries on earth, a land of contrasts and extremes. You can travel by boat deep into the Amazon basin (see previous posts) or you can climb high into...
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Cueva del Diablo
On the south side of the Salar de Uyuni is the infrequently visited site of Cueva del Diablo, a pre-Inca burial site situated in a cave part way up a cliff. Inside the cave are a series burial sites...
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Tarabuco, a real Christmas market
‘Twas the Sunday before Xmas and there was only one place to go when in need of some last minute Xmas gifts or a fascinating insight into life in rural Bolivia: Tarabuco. The market in Tarabuco is...
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Potosi’s secret valley
It feels like you’ve entered a forgotten world, something from a science fiction movie when intrepid adventurers stumble upon a hidden valley where dinosaurs still rule and humans are running around in...
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Casa Nacional de la Moneda de Bolivia
The Casa Nacional de la Moneda de Bolivia in Potosi is an imposing building. From the moment you see the huge wooden doors, complete with large metal studs, you know it is anything but ordinary. The...
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Where trains go to rust, Uyuni’s train cemetery
The one man-made must-see in Uyuni is an extraordinary collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century steam trains slowly (very slowly in the arid climate of this region) rusting on the outskirts of...
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Stepping back into history, the Museo Hacienda Cayara
At the end of the long and verdant Cayara Valley lies the tiny village of the same name. It looks like any ordinary Bolivian village: red tiles in the Spanish fashion sit atop adobe houses nestled into...
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Life in the raw, Tarija’s Paleontology Museum
If Tarija is famed for its Mediterranean climate and its vineyards, it is also famous throughout Bolivia as being a region rich in pre-historic sites filled with fossils and whole skeletons of...
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