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Bolivia the South American Paradise Over the Andes
Andrea shares her trip to the Bolivian highland in the Andes.
A Bolivian friend invited Andrea last year to do a gypsy journey for the surroundings of the capital of his country, and without thinking it twice she enlisted suitcases to leave Colombia and to live one of her best tourist experiences.
In her baggage she did carried jackets, scarf, thick stockings, closed shoe and all that allowed her to be sheltered in the low temperatures of the highland that she would visit.
After the ladder obligated in Santa Cruz of the Sierra, she to flew to La Paz to settle in the one that would be her residence during those days; of there she go and later returned after a long walk for some of the towns.
This way, she traveled the roads of the sector in car, she proved the gastronomy of the restaurants through succulent trout dishes and cochinito (pig) and she felt the love closely that 'los cholos' manifests for their roots.
She was in several towns, big cities, she enjoyed a carnival, to knew one of the highest mountains in this country, until she arrived to what herself denominates the most sublime show in the nature: The Lake Titicaca.
In this Andrea's ecological and cultural experience, remains the remembrance
of the nine centigrade degrees that reaches La Paz, of the 3800 meters
high of the lake, of the mate of coca that heated her body minutes after
arriving to La Peace, of the pachamama, the green sheets, the peacefulness
of the districts and the simplicity of their people.
The big cities
Santa Cruz is recognized by the beauty of its woman, as the residents tell, "in the same way that in Colombia is acknowledged the woman's paisas or calenas charm, in Bolivia is admired those girls born in that town", Andrea said.
Also has numerous ecological reservations to visit such as: Parque Amboro, Parque Noel Kempf Mercado and the Route of Che Guevara. Volcanos, lagoons, waterfalls, trenches, as well as flora and exuberant fauna are in these places to make of Bolivia a country with immense natural richness.
La Paz, capital of Bolivia, has the particularity of lying on a canyon and to be surrounded of mounts and mountains of great altitude. The temperature oscillates between the 9 and 15 centigrade degrees and it is to 3600 meters on the level of the sea.
Since there, was that Andrea observed the second higher mountain of
the country, the Nevado of Illimani, recognized between the residents
like the pinnacle, an inactive volcano belonging to the Andes that surpasses
the 6 thousand meters high.
On the other hand, La Paz offers multiple options of cultural enrichment, in near nine archaeological and historical museums, located in the Street Jaen or close to downtown.
Cochabamba, on the other hand, is located in a valley that has their
same name. In this city Andrea to knew the Christ of La Concordia,
a statue 40 meters high installed in the hill San Pedro, that has a
great similarity to the Cristo Corcovado of Rio
of Janeiro, Brazil. Up to here it ascended in cable car, an
adventure that should make part of the calendar of all traveler.
Neighbors of La Paz
When leaving the capital of Bolivia different routes are found it to go to small neighboring towns. Andrea traveled to Coroico, Urmiri, Oruro and Copacabana.
To
Oruro she to arrived February 23, exactly when was the carnival in which
surrenders tribute to the Virgin of the Socavón or the Pachamama,
an event recognized to be the felt folclor expression in Bolivia. Andrea
was impressed by the love, the respect to the folclor and the happiness
with which the residents carried their attires and they participated
in the processions.
More toward the south is located Urmiri, a spa, to 118 kilometers of La Paz.
Then, she returned to La Paz to embark upon a new journey toward the north-west. To 96 kilometers she was found Coroico, a town of some five blocks, with numerous warehouses of crafts and located in the heart of many german people.
In those stores she bought a chullo (cap made in wool), stamped T-shirt, key rings and other coats elaborated with hair of llama or of alpaca (domestic animals characteristic of that South American region).
"That place is full with german people that decided to leave everything and there they formed a new family, leave to live to what was an utopia land for them. They are happy for the streets with their children, others have installed lodgings or restaurants", Andrea said.
The journey continued in Copacabana. In this district that is beside
the Lake Titicaca, you arrive after trafficking during three and a half
hours for a paved highway, when leaving La Paz. Right there in Copacabana
was one of Andrea's big encounters with a of those that she denominate
marvels of the nature: The Titicaca.
Evo Morales President of Bolivia
The sweet ocean
Of
seeing the ocean, that was the impression that had Andrea when she met
with the Lake Titicaca.
It is a body of water giant, of blue and green colors for the one that the tourists, in their majority foreigners, carry out journeys of a complete day. Over these cold waters is usual to find native that travel in boats elaborated in totora (a plants herbaceous), the same that sell in miniature to the tourists as souvenir of their passing for Copacabana. It has 204 kilometers long, and 65 of wide.
Andrea felt proud of being over this immense body of water that, from her room classes of elementary, she remembered as the navigable lake to more altitude in the world.
During the voyage the boat was parked in two towns located amid the lake: the Island of the Sun and the Island of the Moon where the navigators ate and they bought workmanships, they visited Inca ruins, a museum and they took pictures with ' cholitas' (natives people) that timidly are seen with their children and their llamas.
Bolivia Facts of interest
· The flights to Bolivia have daily frequency from the main capitals cities in Latin america. Some flights do scale in Lima (Peru) where connection is made with another airline, and arrives to La Paz.
* Bolivia’s currency is the US dollar. So if you go from any country is suggested to take dollars, accepted in 90% of the Bolivian places.
* In the suitcase clothes should be carried that shelters. Although it can also take advantage and to buy scarfs, jackets and 'chullos' elaborated with llama hair and alpaca. Also carry a bathroom suit.
* La Paz you have many hotels of all the categories. The city is divided in two, according to the architecture. The modern area has wide avenues, modern buildings, malls, bank area and supermarkets, like in any other city. And the ancient area with traditional architecture.
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