After the not so pleasant night under the stars on 3000müNn we were driving back to Mendoza, and from there further north to Salta. A very beautiful city, nestled in a valley and with a lively nightlife. As we drove slowly, however, to Bolivia, we took already the same night a bus to Villazon / Bolivia.
was very impressive that you could even look directly at the border of Bolivia, the extreme poverty: the houses are very simple, there are many people selling jewelry and food at the roadside and almost every woman wears the traditional Bolivian costumes. This consists of several long skirts, colorful scarves looped around the body, two long braids and a hat on his head.
What I also found very funny is that you can buy TNT explosives on the road. A rod fuze all costs 2 €! hihi
We went to Tupiza. There we rented a jeep with a local guide and went to a 4-day tour through the Andes to Bolivia to Uyuni. That was definitely a hell of an impressive drive in which was not boring. Every day there was some breakdown, either blew a tire and we were stuck in the sand or a river. Fortunately we were able to liberate but always. The streets were
either of soil or rubble and left and right extended the beautiful landscapes of mountains, valleys, cacti, rheas, llamas, Vicunhas, chinchillas and flamingos.
From time to time we also met in small Andean villages, in the middle of nowhere with 10-20 huts made of mud and straw. As you can live there is beyond me.
The highlights were, firstly, the Lagunas that glittered through the many minerals in various colors and were littered with hundreds of flamingos. Despues we passed bubbling geysers that smelled strongly of sulfur and spit out steaming hot mud. Also in volcanoes we passed, at the moment but unfortunately were not active.
The final day went through the largest Salt desert in the world, where you drive for hours with a 1m thick layer of salt. (I've tasted it, it's actually pure salt!)
went to this very diverse and exciting tour will continue west to Sucre. After we put our backpacks in a cheap hostel, we rented off-road motorcycles and made us a leader in an extremely fun tour of the Andes, Sucre.
Furthermore, we did a tour in a mine. That was one of my most impressive experience: in the tunnel about 8000 men working in the private. That is, anyone can pay a little rent and then break down in the mine minerals. In the corridors must you bent over and run some crawling on your belly! There is no oxygen supply or electricity. Due to the immense dust
workers have a life expectancy of 40-50 years. We are working 10-12 hours per day and, not infrequently, children of 10-15 years in the tunnels.
Due to poor coordination between the workers and the bad working conditions, about 50 people die each year in accidents.
will be rewarded this hard work, at least by a pretty good wage. Depending on the yield you earn 100-300 Euro per month. This is significantly higher than the average wage in Bolivia.
That was definitely a very impressive and depressing experience.
Finally, we droveyet to Santa Cruz, where we realized that our time is too short to intermediate seminar in Argentina. Therefore we had to spontaneously book a flight to the 40-hour bus ride to get around. Fortunately we were able to get a pretty good time and were therefore in Eldorado at the seminar.
On this we have remained with the other volunteers, discussed problems, discussed a lot and had lots of fun.
Sooo, and now I'm back home and I do also have our hands full. The training building will soon be ready, every day we collect several hundred kilograms mangos for the pigs and now have I built one with Nicolas Cage quail. Yes, I'll try again with the quail breeding! =)
And I'm also practice firmly on the charango, a mandolin-like instrument with 10 pages, which I bought in Bolivia. I'm curious times, if I up to my home fairly dominant.
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