Here's some pictures from a hard, cold, three day trip across the salt flats, the desert, the mountains, the volcanos, the geysers, the blood red lakes, the shocking emerald lakes, through a a national park, over rivers, past hundreds of flamingos, vicunyas, two emus.... through the snow, .in a 4 X 4 Jeep with four sisters and one husband - and a driver......all of them only speaking Quechua, an indigenous language of South America......no English, no Fren...

Just pictures - no blah blah blah....lovely drive -

Potosi - highest city on earth ( around 14,500 feet), was once the richest city in the universe all because of one mountain - a mountain of silver. To learn all about it, try and download or find the German documentary called the Devil's Mine. It is the story, made 5 years ago, of 14 year old Basilla and his 10 year old brother who live on the mountain at the mine. Basilla has worked in the mine for 4 years and his little brother is just starting. Their ...

Mayday, Sunday May 1 – a holiday in Sucre so there was going to be nothing going on. Sundays in Latin America are family days – stores are closed and families gather together to do whatever families used to do all over the world before Sunday shopping. All families, all towns, unless your town is a Sunday market town and yippee, then it is Sunday shopping extraordinaire! Tarabuca was a short….1.5 hour bus ride, from Sucre and was reputed to ...

Sucre - the "White city";  young, vibrant, full of students - many highschools, universities: streets brimming with fun and energy. Capital of Bolivia, seat of the government and the courts and apparently very rich - now and in the previous centuries. Beautiful white colonial buildings, churches, hospitals, universities....just lovely. but not very bolivian looking or feeling. for the most part people in bolivia have been very...well..neutral - not unfrie...