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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 "l…
- 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…
- 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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