Here is the main page covering our visit to Bolivia during our four-month stay in South America from December 2016 to April 2017 (including Colombia, Ecuador and Peru), plus a slide show of pictures at the end.
For journal postings from Bolivia, CLICK HERE.
Our month-long Itinerary took us around the highlands, lowlands and jungle of the country:
- La Paz
- Copacabana & Isla del Sol (Lake Titicaca)
- Death Road by bike
- Palca Canyon, and Valley of the Spirits
- Concepcion & San Xavier Mission
- Other Jesuit missions, incl. San Ignacio and Santa Ana
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra
- Samaipata & El Fuerte Archeological Site
- Amboro National Park
- Sucre, including Parque Cretacico/Dinosaur footprints
- Potosi, including Cerro Rico and Minting museum
- Uyuni (& Colchani) Salt Flats, Desert and Eduardo Avaroa Reserve
- Trinidad-Beni, with Amazonias river cruise on the Mamore and Ibare Rivers
You can browse the map below for where we’ve been in Bolivia (and posted an article). Click a pushpin to find the posted articles from the marked locations.
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SLIDE SHOW HINT: If you’ve already seen the earlier pictures in the slide show, use the dot placemarks below the slides to jump around.
One of many parades and demonstrations, La Paz 
View of La Paz from its hills 
Yellow-line teleferico climbs the hillsides 
Daily market, La Paz 
Local women dancing along the streets, La Paz 
Parliament, La Paz, and its anti-clockwise clock 
Downtown La Paz 
Holy water springs from Yumani village 
Tourists now scale the steps to Yumani village, Isla del Sol 
Rock formations, Aramu muru, Titicaca 
Portal, Aramu muru 
Portal, Aramu muru 
Copacabana, Lake Titicaca 
Pilgrim’s trail, Isla del Sol 
Isla del Sol 
Hearing the echo within, Aramu muru 
Puma head in clay, Isla del Sol 
The sacred rock, Isla del Sol 
Priestly center of Inca, Isla del Sol 
From Yumani, high above Titicaca 
Inca pilgrim trail heading to sacred site 
Eastern bay and ancient terraced farms 
Entering Valle de las animas, at Palca 
Valle de las animas 
Valle de las animas 
Rising out of Valle de las animas 
Mountain caracara, or Ave Maria 
Inverted temple looking toward central temple, Tiwanaku 
Elaborately carved, teary Pachamama, Tiwanaku 
The Sun Gate, Tiwanaku 
Multi-cultural stony faces in inverted temple, Tiwanaku 
100 meter long walled forum and temple, Tiwanaku 
Model of pyramid topped by Andean cross 
7-tier main pyramid under restoration, Tiwanaku 
Kneeling creator Viracocha with figures and calendar, Sun Gate 
A Colonnia silver coin, with PTSI stamp lower left 
Re-creation of smelting conditions in early mints 
Central plaza, Potosi, with a statue of Liberty from France 
Cerro Rico, the famous silver mine of Potosi 
Streets of Potosi 
Weighing the dynamite at Potosi miner’s market 
Tio, the devil’s image, deserving homage at mine entrance 
Exploring one of the safer passages of Cerro Rico mine 
Miners preparing to head into Cerro Rico 
One of many entrances to Potosi mine 
18th century gear machinery for minting coins 
Drop-off, Death Road 
Death Road 
No wrong turns allowed, Death Road 
A support bus on the edge 
The valley along Death Road, lower down 
Ornate chapel and madonna, San Ignacio 
The mission church, San Miguel 
Carved and gilded wood of the altar, San Miguel 
Bell tower, San Rafael mission 
17th century home, Santa Ana reduccione 
Long houses by the plaza and church, San Javier 
Façade, San Ignacio church 
The fanciful interior, San Javier church 
Chiquitano craft and expressiveness, San Miguel 
Façade, San Javier church 
Monastery courtyard, Concepcion 
Church Interior at night, Concepcion 
Carved and gilded wood, San Miguel altar 
Church Interior, Concepcion 
Tender statue of madonna and child, Concepcion 
Plaza mayor, Concepcion 
Contemporary, politicized stations of cross, Conception 
Baroque apse, San Ignacio 
Elaborately carved confessional, with Schmid tribute, San Miguel 
Altar, San Miguel 
Altar and “proscenium,” San Rafael 
Original wall paintings, San Rafael 
Carved Jesuit emblem 
Flamboyant madonna, San Rafael 
17th c Chiquitano organ, still working, in Santa Ana 
17th c Chiquitano music instruments 
San Javier mission church 
Concepcion mission church 
Ornate chapel, San Miguel 
On the Uyuni Salt Flats (Salar de Uyuni) 
Across the watery surface 
Cactus of Incahuasi Island amid the salt plains 
Tracks in the popcorn balls of salt 
Salt brick construction, Colchany 
Packing the salt, Colchany 
Salt like ice, with hexagon patterns 
From the volcanic slopes along the shoreline 
Volcano at sunset 
Watery fringe of the salt flats 
Mirroring sheen of water on the salt 
Reinforced road through the briny fringe 
Incahuasi Island 
Strange plants in danger, Avaroa Reserve desert 
Railroad graveyard, Pulacayo, near Uyuni 
Villager salt pile, Colchani 
Village church, Coqueza 
Mummies at Coqueza 
Llamas graze on the volcanoes 
Llamas of petrified coral long for the hills 
Tumuli, los chullpas 
Rail lines out of Uyuni along the edge of the salt flats 
Leaving the salt flats 
At the red sand desert, morning 
Grassy fringe of desert lagoon 
Dancing flamingoes 
Lagoon beauty 
The “stone tree” at a natural gathering of rocky pedestals 
Passing flamingoes at a lagoon 
The lake algae turning all reddish 
Peaceful haven of Laguna Colorada 
Desert teeming with life 
Red sand formations under the volcanoes 
Lagoon with volcanoes 
Traveling the valleys of the desert 
Thermal pools, Avaroa Reserve 
Thermal pools, Avaroa Reserve 
Thermal pools, Avaroa Reserve 
Lagoon 
Tailgating in the desert with the four-wheeler