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Excursions


The Escuela Runawasi organizes a number of optional excursions to areas throughout Bolivia. You might want to take advantage of organized trips to the following locations, or go exploring on your own!

Tunari | Photos
One-day excursion to Tunari mountain, with 5' 200 m the highest mountain of the Tunari Cordillera, which limits the city of Cochabamba at the north. It is the habitat of condors, vicuñas, lamas, vizcachas, Andean geese and many others.

Incallajta | Photos
Is the biggest complex of inca ruins found until now in Bolivia (ca. 25 ha). The main building is a hall of 81 to 27 m. The construction method of Incallajta follows the classical Inca model: a strategically situated peninsula surrounded by three rivers and dominated by a fortified mountain. (Archeology in Cochabamba - UMSS).

Incachaca | Fotos
The Quechua name means "Inca bridge". It was part of the Inca trail to the tropical lowlands. It is in the cloud forest, an exuberant subtropical jungle, at aprox. 2.600 m, in the yungas region of Cochabamba.

Tropical rainforest of Cochabamba | Photos
Three days in the tropical rainforest of Cochabamba. Bathing in rivers and creeks, hikes through the jungle, observing wild life.

Torotoro | Photos
Is a national park with an enchanted landscape. It has caverns with stalactites and stalagmites, dinosaur footprints, giant turtle fossils , cave drawings, precolumbian fortresses. It is 4- 5 hrs by car and 20 min. by plane from Cochabamba

Catavi | Photos
Three days in the mining center Catavi-Siglo XX, that at a time was one of the biggest tin producers of the occidental world. It is a field trip with a guide, with emphasis on Bolivian history and actuality about this legendary mine and its region.

La Paz | Photos
La Paz is the highest de facto capital of the world, situated between 3' 200 and 4' 000 m above sea level, between immense plains and majestic mountains. It is a cosmopolitan city, full of contradictions; with a mostly aymara population and a vast cultural and architectural diversity. The Illimani, symbol of La Paz, rises protecting this impressing city, center of commerce, finance and government.

Tiwanaku | Photos
Tiwanaku is considered the most important culture of the precolumbian period in Bolivian territory and in South America. In the course of two millenaries it achieved important advances in science and art. Proofs are the cultivation and irrigation techniques in semi subterranean fields (camellones), and on terraces at the hill sides. Also surprises their architecture where they put on record astronomical knowledge molded delicately into different types of lithic materials. Its capital, also called Tiwanaku, is situated at 70 km west of La Paz at an altitude of 3' 845 m above sea level. (Archeol.. Guide Bolivia, Archeol. Javier Escalante M.)

Sucre | Photos
Known as the "White City of the Americas", it is the historic and legal capital of Bolivia, which has maintained its colonial character. Its university attracts students from all over Bolivia and the neighbor countries. Its museums, culture and handicrafts make a visit memorable. A mute witness, protagonist of the region's history, a deity for the native, a 1' 400 year old cedar tree can be visited in the garden of the Recoleta Museum. On Sundays, Tarabuco becomes a market and meeting place for the magnificently dressed Tarabuqueños, descendents of the Yamparaez warriors, who defeated the Spanish conquerors in several occasions.

Potosi | Photos
Founded in 1545, during the colony Potosí was the most important town of the continent, bigger than London or Paris at that time. The town is dominated by the Cerro Rico - the Rich Mountain, where hundreds of thousand men, the native mitayos and the black slaves, imported from Africa, disappeared. The visitor of this town-museum will feel moved to the Middle Age. Nearby are the hot springs of Tarapaya, a volcano lagoon, which distributes its water to several thermal resorts.

Salar of Uyuni| Fotos
The salar of Uyuni is the biggest salt desert of the world, at 4`000 m above sea level. There are islands covered with giant cactur. To the south, incredible volcanic landscapes with geisers and fumaroles, and lagoons changing colours, fill the visitor with admiration and astonishment.


PLEASE NOTE For excursions to the rainforest, and trips to the tropical lowlands, or to some neighbor countries, a yellow fever vaccination is necessary.

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