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»   Highlights - the Altiplano

At often above 4500m, the snow line of 6000m+ mountains is never farSmall mining town upon the bleak altiplano A viscacha (type of chinchilla) that lives in rocks upon the desolate altiplano

Travellers stop off to bathe in a thermal pool on the otherwise freezing altiplanoBeautiful lake reflects a mountain on the altiplano.
Beautiful lakes on the altiplano are many shades in colour, from green to blue to red (caused by algae); the white is a mineral depositBeautiful lakes on the altiplano
are many shades in colour, from green to blue to red (caused by algae); the white is a mineral deposit

A guide, his wife, and me in front of the jeep we travelled in over the altiplano

Salt gatherers rest on a flooded Salar de UyuniBeautiful lake reflects a mountain on the altiplano.
Lakes are many shades in colour, from green to blue to red (a result of algae)The Salar de Uyuni, the world's biggest salt flat, shown here flooded - but this increased the spectacle to almost mystical proportions

 Flamingos on the Bolivian altiplanoFlamingos on the Bolivian altiplanoFlamingos on the Bolivian altiplano

 

»   Mining Scenes

Inside Rich Mountain, miners eek out a hard existenceOutside the mines in Potosi (where women cannot work within) an old lady goes through the disregarded rock to find minerals to live offA miner inside Rich Mountain has found a mineral deposit

Old lady takes coca leaves to her mouth

 

»   Jungle Themes

Cayman (a type of alligator) submerged in Bolivian jungle wetland (T Pantanal)Guide capturers an anacondaCapybara (world's biggest rodent) in the Pantanal

Swimming in an Amazon tributary: the grey dot on the centre
right is one of several river dolphins that popped up nearby every now and againCaptured Cayman in jungle at night

 

»   The rest - Sucre and Titicaca

Priests give mass blessing, sprinkling holy water over a huge crowd outside a church on Palm Sunday in SucreLady stops for some shopping on Isle de Sol, Lake Titicaca

Llama tethered by house on Isle de Sol in Lake TiticacaMasses crowd into a church on Palm Sunday in SucreDinosaur foot prints in a quarry near Sucre

 

   

 

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