Süd & Mittelamerika 2012

Hello to everybody (-;

This Part of the Blog shows and explains the south of Bolivia and the north of Argentina. The landscape is one time more just beautiful. The different colour and the interessing culture are only two reason why i like this region. In many town are the inka malls still in a good condition. The locals use this malls for to protect their animals like lamas, sheeps and cows.

The malls are still very stabil. The wind here was during the night very strong. All of those rocks are not lose.

I went on this Trekking with my trekking buddy Adam. Here is he on a inka trail down to the next town. It was difficult to trek in this area because we hadent no maps. So we had luck the we found the way out from this hills...

Good Morning in a new day. View from the tent by sunrise. The night were freezing cold. The water was frozen as well in the morning. The different from day to the night temperatur is arround 20 degrees.

The bridge in Tarija by night

This foto was made in Tilcara, Argentina. the colour of the rocks and hills changed a lot. The colour change from red, gris, black, and green. On the top was sometimes snow to see.
Tilcara is a town witch is recomendet to visiting

The pucara of Tilcara. This town is arround 900 years old.

Pumamarca, Provinz of Jujuy, This Rock cold "cerro siete coloures" This place is in the middle of the quedrada de humahuaca.

Salta, Argentina View from a viewpoint close to the city. Salta is nice city good locatet to the region of salta and salvador de jujuy.

Cafayate, Quebrada de los conchas. This area was my favorit region. This street is arround 100 km long and the view is on many times like that.

The street follows a river and on the left side are many canyons. They are in the winter season dry because there is no rain. I clima is because this very dry.

I went to visit those places on a Trekking for a couple of days. These here was close to the place of "Ceramica"

The animal is actually a dog. It looks like i dont know but it makes noise like a dog. strange...

This Rock calles "Obelisco" It is locatet in the Quebrada de las conches.

This fotos shows the typical Natur of Bolivia. Is has many waterfalls and rivers. At the moments ist winter here and the watertemperatur not that warm. But here i have to swimm no matter when..

This place is Samaipata three hours south of Santa Cruz

I spendet many nights and hours in the busrides in Southamerica. The rides in Argentina, Chile and Brasil were very good. And now i made the experience in Bolivia. It was very special. the People from here dont pay for the their children. That means there are too many people in the bus. In this busride from Samaipata to Sucre sleept the children in the floor of the bus. No space available. Toilets are byetheway not in the bus. the bus stops all 5-8 Hours once...

This city is Sucre. The place is famous for the many white buildings.
It is a good place for to stay for a couple of days.

In Bolivia excists no Supermarket. Here is still the small business at the front. The fruits and vegtables buy the people in the market and the rest in a small store like this here. It is very familiar here. There is not only one store like this. there are many and the most of them sell the same stuff.

This is a picture friom a market in Bolivia. All day is it possible to get fresh food fomr here. Here are many special fruits. It is possible to try first.

Potosi is the highest City in the world. with over 4000 Meter. The air is thin and the temperatur in the night very cold. This local restaurant is in the town.

Potosi was for a long time the richest city in the world. The had lots of mine industrie. Today is still a mine in here and in the city is it possible to buy Dynamite, Alcohol and Coca leafs.
The work is verz hard and the people work in this mine up to 24 hours. After this time they can go out for one day. The temperature is arround 40 degrees.

The City looks nice. they has a Place in the center and manz good looking churches and cathedrales.

Tupica, a town in the southpart of Bolivia. The landscape is like this foto here- Lots of canyons and red, grey rocks sourroundet with cactus.
This here is Canyon del Duende.
The place lookes so good so i decidet to go for a trekking. I met on the busride to Tupiza Adam and so we went together to this trekking. To find informations, maps an stuff was very difficult. They said it is inpossible...
but we found a way and spendet three days and two nights in the canyons of Tupiza. Navigation was a compass.

Back in Tupiza was time to make a new plan, desition where to go next.
From here is it possible to go to a excursion to the Salar de Uyuni.
I booked this tour for three nigts and four days and it was just amazing.
The landscape in this part of Bolivia is incredible.
Canyons, Rivers, Desert, Volcanos, Lamas, Flamingos, Lakes, Lagunes, Hot Spring, greyzers and of course lot of Sal.
The group was with fout persons very small an comfortable to travel. The hole tour was 1200 km long....
It was necessay to travel with a four wheel car-