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In this episode - the 3-day Tour, The Rasta Llama, Gringo Bingo and the search for the Lost City of the Drinkas….and also getting to Potosi, Carnival in Oduro and La Paz. (mainly due to cyber USB phobia in Potosi and Oduro without which this would have been in long ago!)<br />
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Bill Shum2006-03-24 20:53:07
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In this episode - the 3-day Tour, The Rasta Llama, Gringo Bingo and the search for the Lost City of the Drinkas….and also getting to Potosi, Carnival in Oduro and La Paz. (mainly due to cyber USB phobia in Potosi and Oduro without which this would have been in long ago!)
Well, hasn’t Bolivia turned out to be another gem! Back in the land of cheaper prices and good service. Pity to have missed so much of Chile South but you know…and maybe things were better down south as one has to say that not only was Chile expensive, the service in many places was not up to scratch, and Bolivia has the prices and friendliness of my experiences in Argentina.
As the road into Bolivia had been closed we had come in thru’ Calama and Ollague a bit more north and made our way to Uyuni, the central hub of all tours south.
I’m writing from the rooftop solarium of a hotel in Potasi on the way to Oduro for the Devil’s Festival, quite appropriate after all our other ‘Devil” experiences. I’m still having trouble breathing sometimes, it’s over 4,000 metres here but I thought after a couple of weeks between 3,000 and Ollagüe4,500 I would be more acclimatised! But not so, I still have to take a few deep breaths every now and then with this awful oxy-starved sensation, weird, can’t wait to get back to the coast. In fact Raf just tells me this is the joint highest city in the world! (4,067m) Also once was the biggest city in the world! 8 million people died I the mines here! But this is all factual stuff!
So, the tour. Uyuni is home to several thousand tour operators, ranging in quality from nothing to sufficient. They are all the same, go to the same places, do the same things, have the same Toyota 4x4 Landcruisers (here’s one of the differences, some are new, some definitely are not!) The basic is a driver and a cook, then some take 4 people, luxury, some 6 and some forgo the cook
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