December 2018

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Flamingos on New Year’s Eve

The next day started with Flamingos. We had seen wild Flamingos before in Mexico and on the Galapagos but we had no idea that they also life on more than 4’000 m. And we would have never expected that they would be the most beautiful we have ever seen. They had beautiful yellow peaks and […]

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Walking on a Mirror

Today was the day the highlight of our Bolivia trip began. We started on our 3-day trip into the Bolivian desert including the famous Salar de Uyuni. But first we went to a train cemetery. Before a German scientist invented a way to produce nitrate by fixing nitrogen from the air, nitrate was the biggest […]

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A Mine that Killed Millions

Potosi is infamous for being home to the former biggest silver mine in the world. In the 15th and 16th century the Spanish inquisitors deported millions of Peruvians and Bolivians to this mine and forced them to dig for silver in quasi slavery. The working conditions were so terrible that 7 to 8 million Indians […]

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Gallery of Potosi

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The Sweetest City

On boxing day we left for Sucre. Still without Seimen’s and Eva’s luggage as Alitalia continued to prove incapable to deliver their luggage to the right location. We took one of the shortest flights of our world trip to Sucre, as the bus journey over the Andes would have been unbearable. Sucre was preferred by […]

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Gallery of Sucre

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Christmas at the Pool

After the cold last days in Peru and la Paz and in expectation of cold days in Sucre, Potosi and Salar de Uyuni we needed a place to warm up. And therefore, we took a flight to Santa Cruz where we stayed over Christmas in the nicest Airbnb we ever have. It was a condominium […]

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Gallery of LaPaz

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Haute Cuisine and Cable Cars

With its 3’600m la Paz is not only a high city but high is also its cuisine. To be honest, we didn’t do much else than eat and ride cable cars in this city. But the food was so good that this was a journey of its own. We started our food tour with the […]

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Living like the Uros on Lake Titicaca

After dropping off our luggage at our hotel and a quick breakfast we already got picked up for our Uros tour. The name Titicaca sounds funny to us German speakers but it actually means puma stone. With it’s 3’800m it is the highest navigable lake of the world and about 16 times as big as […]

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