.......Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's GO someplace like Bolivia.

and here are some more pictures of the festival in the town near la paz. tiahuanaco parade

tiahuanaco festival ladies dancing

next up on jenny´s itinerary was cochabamba, because there is a national park just south of there where there are dinosaur footprints in the rock! i got to cochabamba on a sunday and there was yet another festival and parade going on. it was independence day for cochabamba or something and i actually say evo morales the president of bolivia. on monday i went by the tourist office to see when to catch a bus to toro toro (dinosaur footprint place) and turns out buses only go on wednesdays and sundays. so i decided to hang out till then and caught a bus wednesday night to toro toro. got there at about 1:30 in the morning and luckily there was a hotel right next to the bus station open and cheap too. next morning i went to the park office and got a guide to go and see some of the sights and here they are.

some canyon i dont remember the name


dinosaur footprints


dinosaur footprints (teradactyl)

thats right more dinosaur footprints

hills around toro toro

toro toro

took the next bus back to cochabamba because they are very infrequent and didn´t want to get stuck in toro toro. went via cochabamba to oruro then by train on to uyuni to see the salar de uyuni (largest salt flat in the world). i ended up getting a tour with 5 other people to see the salt flats and it is probably the most sureal place ive ever been before. the salt flats themselves were... well just a sea of white. used to be part of the ocean some time ago and now just white ground.

salt hotel

salt flats from fish island.

salt flats again

thats me on his head

after the salt flats we went and saw some volcanos and also some lakes and here they are.

volcan ollague (active)

this is lake coloraada. bright red and parts bright blue. the white is mostly borax deposits but some sodium, magnesium and gypsum.

laguna colorada

another lake

this is near the geysers (bubbling hot mud)

flamingos at laguna colorada

laguna verde and volcan licancaabur (5960m)

this is the borax lake

after the salt flats i made it to tupiza the next evening. i was actually supposed to catch a bus at 6:00 in the morning but slept in and missed it. but met another girl from france that also missed the same bus and we ended up catching a ride in the afternoon in an suv. there are tours that start in tupiza and end in uyuni and the suvs go back to tupiza in the afternoon so that was a nice break. felt a bit sick in tupiza (food poisoning i think). so i just hiked outside of town one day to some dry waterfall. right outside of tupiza in a small town is supposidly where butch cassidy and the sundance kid died and are buried. not for sure but thats the story. really hot dry place tupiza.

outside tupiza

outside tupiza

outside tupiza

as for now im in tarija known for wine. my stomach is still a bit quezy but gonna do some wine tasting despite it all. apparently the grapes grown here are some of the highest in the world. worth a try!