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Bolivia, a country full of contradictions. Often so free and wildly beautiful that it feels like a slap in your face, often so rude and messy that you just want to leave. A place that would like to help you, to bring you closer but sometimes is just too hard. Life is complicated and you have to care about yourself, with dignity and some coca leaves in your mouth. Maybe dressed on rainbow colourful clothes with a serious smile along. This was our impression after the first days spent around Oruro. We definitely needed a push to be able to discover Bolivia in a better way and we decided to jump into our first South American train ride. “ Fortune favours the bold ”, as the Latin proverb says and our luck completely changed: the historical train flew over the UruUru Lake surrounded only by wonderful flying pink flamingos, as in a fairy-tale. We crossed incredible valleys encircled by enchanted huge snowy mountain peaks, with the repetitive calm sound of the railway cradling...

Hello dear readers, friends and curious fellow travellers. It has been a long time since our last article was published, more than 5 months already. As you can imagine, many things has happened: for example, breaking our tablet and losing part of our data. Such as 3 ready articles for this blog. So bad, people – we almost cried! But don't worry: after learning South American lesson n. 1 (read it here ), we took a deep breath, tried to fight against “Monster Technology” supported by our beloved travel dinosaur and, in the end, partly re-wrote the articles. The next episode will talk about Bolivia, the fifth State we visited during our trip in the continent. A country that is, at the moment, unfortunately present in the news because of its “ creative ” President Morales. It won't be easy for us, however, to write about Bolivia. The month we have spent in the country left us with conflicting feelings, wonderful memories and many unanswered questions. A journey throu...