Bolivia: Potatoes in peril
United Nations - Potatoes originated in the Andes where more than 4,000 different varieties are grown. A changing climate in Bolivia has put this staple food at risk. The International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, is supporting a project in one Bolivian village to help farmers save this valuable crop.
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Bolivian Goods Train
Just after mid-day on 12th January 2012, I was leaving Atocha by bicycle in southern Bolivia when I heard this goods train coming down the valley from the direction of Uyuni. Goods trains are quite rare in Bolivia and I'm happy to have had the chance to film this one.
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Presentation of the film Samaipata: Agua para Todos at the town's main square.
Wara Wara del Sur, Bolivian Train
A rainy evening on 10th January 2012 at around 18:45. The Wara Wara del Sur passenger train from the Argentine border at Villazon eventually heads into Tupiza on route to Uyuni and finally Oruro.
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Presentation of the film Samaipata: Agua para Todos at the town's main square.
Bolivian passenger trai Street-Running in Oruro
On 20th January 2012 at about 17:30 this Bolivian train headed from its depot north of the city of Oruro to the main station via the streets, pulling a set of carriages for the passenger service to Villazon on the Argentine border. This is a common sight in Oruro.
beautiful Bolivia
Bolivia,A beautiful country with awesome traditions and great music, Amazing andean landscapes. Bring your dancing shoes.
Simply superlative -- this is Bolivia. It's the hemisphere's highest, most isolated and most rugged nation. It's among the earth's coldest, warmest, windiest and steamiest spots. It boasts among the driest, saltiest and swampiest natural landscapes in the world. Although the poorest country in South America (and boy do Bolivians get tired of hearing that), it's also one of the richest in terms of natural resources,arts and music. It's also South America's most indigenous country, with over 60% of the population claiming indigenous heritage, including Aymará, Quechua, Guaraní and over 30 other ethnic groups. Bolivia has it all...except, that is, for beaches.
This landlocked country boasts the soaring peaks of the Cordillera Real around Sorata and the hallucinogenic salt flats of Uyuni, the steamy jungles of the Amazon Basin and wildlife-rich grasslands of the Southeast. Unparalleled beauty is also reflected in its vibrant indigenous cultures, colonial cities such as Sucre and Potosí, and whispers of ancient civilizations. This is exactly what attracts visitors, and with good reason. Bolivia is now well and truly on travelers' radars; opportunities for cultural and adventure activities and off-the-beaten-path exploration have exploded. But while most travelers stick to the well-worn paths of the Altiplano, there's plenty to be found elsewhere, including the tropical east and the lowland regions in the south.
Bolivia's social and political fronts have been in flux since the appointment of the country's first indigenous president. Optimism is generally high, especially among the indigenous majority, although many changes are afoot. Protests, marches and demonstrations are a perpetual part of the country's mind-boggling landscape. This is a truly extraordinary place. Put on your high-altitude goggles, take a deep breath (or three) and live superlatively.
EXPLORING A RIVER IN THE ANDES NEAR SUCRE, BOLIVIA
This is one of my trips to the outskirts of Sucre, Bolivia. As an Engineering Geologist, my visit to the river is mostly looking at the geology and the nature of the area. The walkway found at minute 20:04 was later identified by an expert as a pre-Hispanic path, possibly Inca or Tiwanaku, which had received some maintenance in recent times.
Bolivian train followed through Oruro market
19th January 2012, in Oruro, Bolivia. I rushed up a street to try and film the spectacle of a passenger train going through the market but just caught the tail-end of it. Still, the video is interesting.
Bolivia Travel Guide
Wild Frontiers' Jonny Bealby talks about the highlights of a visit to Bolivia.
A train to Machu Picchu
A record of part of our South American adventure in October 2011. Apart from the shot at the beginning of the Iguazu Falls (STUNNING!!) on the Brazil/Argentina border ... these are images from our train, the Andean Explorer, from Puno on Lake Titicaca (border of Bolivia) to Cuzco in Peru, then onwards to Machu Picchu.
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P.S. This was shot on an i-phone so the quality isn't ideal, the camera judder is inevitable when used hand held.
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Amazon Adventures | Bolivia | South America travel blog
If you're traveling South America on a budget, you should definitely put exploring the Amazon Jungle from Bolivia to the top of your list.
It's said to offer some of the cheapest Amazon Jungle & Pampas tours in South America, which depart from the small town of Rurrenabaque.
We were lucky enough to spend an incredible 5 days on a mixed Jungle & Pampas tour which we cannot recommend enough. Here's a short highlights video of our Amazon adventures.
LA PAZ, BOLIVIA: We eat at GUSTU and ride the Teleferico! | Ep.62
We stop off in La Paz, to acclimate to the altitude on our way to the Salt Flats. After exploring the city via the teleferico system, we had dinner at one of the best restaurants in Bolivia: Gustu. We’ve been looking forward to checking out this innovative restaurant for a long time and could not be more excited!
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Bolivia Chile - Altiplano to Atacama Explorer
Starting in the country’s largest city, Santa Cruz, the trip first takes us on a journey from the tropical lowlands, via out of the way and seldom visited locations, towards the altiplano. Here we’ll visit the UNESCO World Heritage site of Samaipata, the archaeological ruins of El Fuerte and the interesting village of La Higuera, where Che Guevara met his untimely end.
Declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1991, Sucre is undoubtedly Bolivia’s most beautiful town, and is regarded as the symbolic heart of the country.
As the location of the first declaration of independence in the Americas from Spain in 1809, Sucre holds a special place in Bolivia’s, if not the entire continents, national psyche. Today it is a pretty colonial town, with elegant administrative buildings, spectacular churches and monasteries, good museums, and is famous for its silver and chocolate shops. There is also a very interesting dinosaur park on the outskirts of town, where 65 million year old dinosaur footprints can be seen. From here we travel on, along a beautiful mountain road, to Potosi.
Out of the giant mountain, or the Rich Hill as its known, that stands above Potosi the Spanish managed to extract enough silver to build an empire. The mine is still in use, extracting zinc, copper and what silver is left and forms one of the more bizarre experiences travellers can take. But if burrowing underground is not to your liking the town, which was at one time reputed to be the richest city on earth, with a population twice that of Paris, is still well worth a visit. It has an excellent museum and some wonderful colonial architecture.
This has got to be one of the highlights of any trip to Bolivia, heading out across the Uyuni Salt flats, the largest salt flats anywhere on earth.
Formed 25,000 years ago when a seismic shift in the continental plates drained a vast inland saltwater lake, leaving behind a perfect white crystal plane of salt. At 12,000sqkms, it stretches as far as the eye can see broken only by a few dark cactus covers islands.
But it's not just the lake itself that is so interesting; it’s also about the people that live, and have lived, around it.
Hiking up a ridge below Tunupa volcano to get a better view, you’ll be led into a cave where you’ll find the mummified bodies of two men, two women and two infants. They are thought to be members of the Uruquillas tribe that legend says made their way overland from Mongolia 2,500 years ago. Our guide told us they were a noble family, probably farmers, that lived and died here 700 years ago.
Today people still eek an existence out of the land around them. Some farm llamas and quinoa on the lower slopes of the volcanoes. Others make a living from the salt itself, either by cutting it into blocks for the building trade, or for animal salt licks, or by drying it out, crushing it up, bagging it and selling it as table salt.
Travelling on to Chile, over the high altiplano you are going to be in for a real treat. On this route you’ll pass by, and visit, some of the most magnificent natural wonders anywhere on the continent. Including geyser fields, dazzling lakes – packed with flamingos – and important geological features…
What you can see behind me is the Colorado Fault. This is where the South America plate is crashing into the Nazca plate, the South American one going above, the Nazca one going below, and it causes this huge gash in the earth.
And finally you are going to end up here, in the amazing Atacama Desert.
Sitting in the rain shadow of both the Andes and the Chilean Coastal Range, the Atacama Desert is renowned as being the driest place on earth. It is also the region that has been driest for longest, with some suggesting a continuous arid area here dating back at least three million years. Some of the soil has no life at all, a situation NASA has exploited to test instruments for Mars missions. And, due to its otherworldly landscapes, it has been used as a location on numerous space films including Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets.
Forming the northern chain of Chile’s ‘Ring of Fire’ the region is framed by a spectacular girdle of volcanoes and plethora of fascinating geographical phenomenon.
During your time here you’ll go for a good hike though the Salt canyon, visit the Valley of the Moon, the high altitude geyser fields, where you might like to take a swim in a thermal pool, and the Salt Range – perfect place for sunset shots. And if the skies are clear you’ll also do a star gazing trip – the Atacama is known as the best place in the world from which to see space.
So the trip ends here in San Pedro de Atacama. From here we drive to Calama, from where we fly to Santiago and home or on for an extension. It’s been an amazing journey.