Bolivia Photos

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“Travel through Bolivia in February, 2011″

From Bolivia, February 2011, posted by Arlo Midgett on 2/07/2011 (161 items)

: Sunset as we left Lake Titicaca

: View of La Paz from our hotel room window

: Our ride to the World’s Most Dangerous Road

: A tire advertisement. I think.

: Driving up to the pass

: The view from La Cumbre

: Near the top

: Rough dog

: Oksana in her road gear

: Ready for the downhill

: Oksana with the ritual offering of alcohol to Pacha Mama

: The chase van

: The World’s Most Dangerous Road™

: A view of the World’s Most Dangerous Road

: Misty roads

: Routing around a new landslide. This was why the van couldn’t drive along the WMDR b…

: Another view of the landslide

: One of the sketchiest parts

: WMDR

: Old landslide. How do they even manage to rebuild the road after something like that…

: Entrance to La Senda Verde

: Blue and Yellow Macaws

: Scarlet Macaw

: Capuchin

: Yeah, right

: Just trying to figure out what was under the bandanna…

: Snack time

: Do monkeys swim?

: He put his tail right into my camera’s lens

: Do you know how much this thing cost?

: No, you need to look at the back to see how the photo came out…

: Spider Monkey

: Time for a dip?

: Spider Monkey in quiet contemplation

: Spider Monkey

: Whoa, what are you doing?

: Oh, taking a nap?

: Out like a light

: Now what do I do?

: So cool

: Yeah, maybe too many napping spider monkey pictures, but it was cool, believe me.

: Capuchin in tree

: Boa

: Toucan

: This is a really, really bad picture.

: There is something seriously wrong with this bird

: La Paz

: Witches’ Market, La Paz Beady-eyed frogs

: Witches’ Market, La Paz Llama fetuses

: La Paz to Sucre Whereupon we learned that “full cama” does not mean “luxury class.”

: Cal Orck’o, Sucre, Bolivia

: Welcome to… Cretaceous Park!

: Does this seem just a little too “Stormwind City” to you?

: A little museum off to the side

: Closeup on the Carnotaurus skeleton

: Carnotaurus maquette

: A limestone lake bed, uplifted 70 degrees by plate tectonics

: Self portraity

: Closeup on the world’s longest set of dinosaur tracks

: Super closeup; photo through the coin-op binocs

: Ankylosaurus

: T-Rex. The “T” stands for “Teeth.”

: something-a-tops, I’ll bet

: Carnotaurus

: Velociraptor

: Brontosaurus?

: Cloacasaurus

: The Circle of Life

: Wasssssssup!

: Cool walls on the outside

: Sucre

: A well-deserved frappaccino

: So that’s where that went!

: Potosí

: Huh. I wonder what “toda la cuadra” means. I thought I knew, but…

: On the drive from Potosí to Uyuni (beautiful countryside, atrocious roads)

: Uyuni from afar

: The unpleasant, unfortunate side of Uyuni

: Our mine tour contract

: At the refinery

: Zee goggles! They do nothing!

: In the Potosí mines

: Did you hear that?

: Eternally hunched over

: In the Potosí mines

: In the Potosí mines

: That stuff on the left is (was) a support timber

: Asbestos

: Ooky stuff dripping down from the ceiling

: Level 3, where we took a break, was very very hot

: Um, maybe NSFW Miners leave offerings here in the belief that Tio will protect them. …

: By the end of the day, all our guides were stuffed with coca leaves

: Our backpacks were COVERED in horrid-smelling mine dust after the tour. Two weeks la…

: Two “completos.” About $5 USD We bought these after the tour, just to have some fun.

: The salt that Oksana scraped off her shows the day after our salt flat tour

: Southern Bolivia

: Pee break!

: Climbing around some rocks, looking for vizcacha

: Rock formations; reminded me of Arizona

: Wind-carved rocks

: The road north…ish

: Plants

: Rock climbing… or, I guess, scampering

: Lizard

: More wind-carved rocks

: This was my day of no leg-room

: Flamingo

: Our ride

: Flamingos in flight

: I would never have imagined flamingos frequented such cold places

: Taking in a panorama

: Lunch spead out on the tailgate

: Those tiny pink dots? Flamingos.

: Lunch stop

: After lunch walk

: Playing with a lizard

: Ruins

: Green lagoon

: Hard-packed ground

: Hard-packed ground

: Stone tree

: Waiting on us

: Panorama of a green lagoon

: At the green lagoon

: Green lagoon

: One of the more interesting bathroom experiences

: Wind-carved (sand blasted) rock formations

: Wind-carved (sand blasted) rock formations

: It was like a Dr. Seuss desert

: Crazy rocks

: Every half hour the landscape completely changed on us

: You’d never know it, looking at the photos, but it was SO COLD

: Had I known that we would be leaving this vantage point of the red lagoon (with the s…

: Taking photos of the flamingos in the red lagoon

: Flamingos and snow. Seems weird to me

: Red lagoon

: 12,000 flamingos at last count

: Flamingos by the thousands

: “Did anyone write an agenda for this meeting?”

: Coming back from the red lagoon

: Waiting on us

: Last desert for the day

: Showing Uyuni salt flats photos.

: Talk about a clear sky. This is the first time I’ve every captured nebulae colors on …

: People walking by with flashlights

: More sky over mountains

: Writing with a flashlight

: Steam vent (not naturally-occurring) put in by an old mining company

: Very, very hot mud (Water boils at less than 85 degrees C at this elevation!)

: Boiling mud pits

: A pool you don’t want to swim in

: After taking this photo, the steam closed in and we almost lost our group. The footi…

: Sunrise at the fumaroles

: So cold outside, so warm in the hot springs!

: Hot springs on the edge of the lagoon

: The Salvador Dali desert

: Painted hills

: Salvador Dali desert

: Green (arsenic) Lake

: Oksana at the Green Lake

: One last view of the Green Lake

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