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4 days · 3 nightService level: Uyuni Salt Flat

Service level: Uyuni Salt Flat

Service level: Uyuni Salt Flat

Service level: Tarabuco sunday market

Traditional practices still hold far greater sway than Western medicine. When confronted with a medical problem 70% of Bolivians, particularly in the rural areas, first see the curandero..

The Aymaras, Bolivia’s largest ethnic group, celebrate every year the beginning of a new year in Tiwanaku, during the southern hemisphere winter’s solstice.

Spanish explorers discovered rich veins of silver and gold in the Andes of Bolivia. Potosi is not only the highest city in the world, at over 4,000 m, but was once the largest, wealthiest city in the Americas.

Since South American indigenous cultures have the winter solstice as the conception of the beginning of a new cycle of life, Aymara, Quechua (Inca), Likan Antai, Rapa Nui and Mapuche cultures celebrate the beginning of a new year with spiritual ceremonies.
