Lima, 5 months after this trip
Bolivia, Andean land: Altiplano, volcanoes, cordilleras. The landscape could be uniform and dull, but in reality it offers a wide variety of nuances, colors and lines that keep the traveler awake and that excites his curiosity.
While going through a mountain guidebook, one can find this sentence: “In Bolivia, everything is possible, nothing is certain.” Travelling from point A to point B during 10 days, going from Colchane to San Pedro de Atacama through Uyuni, is living a small adventure, being ready for the unexpected. It is mandatory to leave the modern routine behind and get used to discover things by ourselves: no, it is not possible to find everything on Internet. Little or no information is available there. How is this trail? Is it possible to take this shortcut? What can we see around here? What a joy to feel the surprise when entering the unknown, when discovering those places that have nothing on the Internet.
Of course the famous Uyuni or the South Lipez are quite incredible and wonderful. However, it is impossible to compare the exquisite surprise that one can feel in front of a place that we can’t even imagine exist, to what we feel when the long time expected landscape is finally a confirmation of all the already published pictures.
10 days in Bolivia is not that much finally. But the density of this short experience is hard to qualify. Every single day was simply full of pictures, stories, and encounters.
And like in Chile, like in Argentina, wind, sun and sand are constant, wearing out body and mind, but slowly shaping the surrounding landscape.
