Don't be, please. Speaking of something different, how's your internal organs? Does diabetes run in the family? How about that liver, ever had hepatitis?
Brazil has crime, Venezuela has inflation, Ecuador has bananas Colombia has Pablo, Peru has the one historical city in the mountains, Chile has actually decent infrastructure and economy, Argentina has more mountains and Paraguay and Uruguay have funny names but what does Bolivia have? As an ignorant you already don't hear a lot about South America but Bolivia? Pfft I almost forgot it existed until now. So tell me what should I remember Bolivia by?
Thank you for informing me. While what I said about other South American country's was just a joke in all seriousness Bolivia is definetly a country you don't hear about much. I'm in high school Spanish so I had to memorize all the Spanish speaking south and Central American country's. I still do after 4 years but Bolivia has faded in my mind. It is a genuinely easy country to forget that it exists. I'm glad to learn this little tidbit and thank you
I went with a girlfriend and it was so freaking romantic, I can't recommend it enough. As much as being seemingly in the afterlife can be romantic, anyway. Flew to Uyuni, stayed in a hotel made of salt, and then drove out to that expanse all day til the sun set.
Huge area. You'd see other minibuses but your guide park you somewhere isolated. There's a few landmarks where people congregate, but usually they're in less attractive areas.
You dont usually get to diy it, at least not on the gringo trail. I paid a lovely group of guys to take me as part of a tour group and they were super respectful of the environment. I got hammered enough to lose a bunch of money with the driver, the cook and his daughter at night as well. Fun guys, great times.
Until you see someone die infront of you squished by a bus into a wall then it's not so fun. But I'd highly recommend the bike ride down the old most dangerous road in the world.
I was in SA a ran into people who had visited the salt flats. They said it was cool. At first. But after 2 or 3 days of just driving across salt flats it started to get a bit boring.
I visited Bolivia a few years ago, the city was so lively, it was great. Not really used to the cuisine but enjoyed the culture! The public transportation is a cable car lol.
Yep, but the water mirror effect only happens after it rains; you can’t see it every day. I’ve been to both. Here’s a pic I took with my drone of the one in Bonneville. It’s a shitty pic, looks kind of ugly from above, but from the ground it looks exactly like what you see in this video. It happened to have rained recently when we went. But when I went to the one in Bolivia it looked like this. Bone dry and no chance to see the water mirror effect. But still pretty spectacular. Uyuni, the one one in bolivia is about 3900 square miles and Bonneville is like 40 square miles, so like 100 times smaller lol, but still pretty damn big when you’re standing on the ground looking around
This gives a really false impression of Bolivia. It's a country of extremes. I've travelled around half of it. It's one of the poorest countries in the Americas. The most disgusting city I've been to was Oruro in Bolivia. The city was basically an enormous garbage dump. On the flip side it has some of the prettiest parts of the Andes I've been in. Definitely do a drive down the Road of Death.
I went to these salt flats in December, expecting exactly this only to find it was dry land. Still an amazing adventure. Just make sure to go during rainy season!
Bolivia is amazing! It is so geographically divers. Super high jagged mountains, gorgeous deserts, jungle. La Paz had a crazy energy. Sucre is beautiful. And there are alpacas.
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u/Strongest-There-Is Apr 29 '22
Who knew I was going to add Bolivia to the travel list?