Bolivia

Our camp at 5,200m on Huayna Potosi. Very cold.

6,088m. Huayna Potosi clad in serious amounts of snow and ice. I never made it to the top.

Sunrise over mountains in Bolivia with the cloud in the distance lying over the southern Amazon.

Another view looking south over the altiplano and jagged mountains of northern Bolivia.

A typical whitewashed church in Sucre, the official capitol of Bolivia.

A classic view of Cerro Rico in Potosi. A mountain that is claimed to have caused the deaths of over 6 million miners.

The middle of nowhere. The desolate station in Uyuni, south west Bolivia.

Mounds of harvested salt on the enormous Salar de Uyuni. 12,000 sq kms of salt.

Driving across the Salar.

The bizarre Isla Pescado in the middle of the Salar, covered in 2000 yr old cacti.

Rare James flamingoes take off from one of the many multi-coloured lakes in the stunning Parque Nacional de Eduardo Avaroa.

Andean flamingoes feeding on algae.

A mineral-rich lake in the national park.

A viscacha. Relative of the chinchilla.

The Arbol de Piedra - or tree of rock.

Laguna Colorada. Dyed bright scarlet by algae that thrive in its mineral rich water.


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