
Service level: Jatun Yampara Community

Service level: Uyuni Salt Flat

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.

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.

For centuries, llama trade caravans have provided the principal link between shepherds of the Andean highlands and agriculturists who inhabit the valleys.

Learning Spanish in Bolivia could also be a very rewarding cross-cultural experience. Bolivia being one of the very few places on earth whose ethnographic and ecological awakening is still preserved in its original..
