Left La Paz for Puno. La Paz is a dusty, smoggy twinkling city where everyone walks purposefully. The steep, twisty roads took us about an hour just to get from our accommodation to where we parked the bikes. Then half an hour in heavy “ no rules traffic” to leave the city. Lungs worse for the experience. Lovely ride to the boarder with Peru by Lake Titicaca. Including a short ferry crossing across the narrowest part of the lake. Easy boarder crossing and lakeside ride into Peru. Differences to Bolivia are immediately obvious.
The witches market in La Paz has all sorts of things to bring good luck to families. Llama feutus is one to wish for agricultural wealth. Also new ties.
Potosí is a mining city. Once the richest city in the world, providing huge silver wealth to Spain. A couple of revolutions later the mountain is now mined by cooperatives. There are 1st class, 2 nd class miners and cart pushers. The cart pushers earn about $US5 a day. We went inside the narrow and dusty mine at almost 4000 m, hard to breath let alone work an 8 hour shift. We bought dynamite in the miners market and set it off outside.
Uyuni solar Bolivia. Largest salt flat in the world. Travelled 87 km to Fish island where cactus grow. First photo is Pieter our tour leader holding us all in my hat.
Look who we found In Uyuni. Alicia has been away from home since February 2017. So excellent to see her again👨👩👧
Stayed the night at a tiny boarder town to get a good run at the boarder in the morning. Very cold night 3800m
Stunning sunset just outside San Pedro de Acatama. The Acatama desert is the driest desert on earth. Altitude makes doing everything an effort.
Wonderful hairpin bends on the road from Purmamarca to the Argentina boarder crossing at Paso de ........?