Bolivia...
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What a country... This is the country for the real adventurers and explorers to travel to find beautiful minerals...
Where to start? Cerro Rico phosphophyllite, Tomokoni vivianite, Viloco cassiterite, Tazna ferberite, Oruro stannite, franckeite, andorite, zinkenite etc, Poopo cylindrite, Llallagua classics, El Dragon selenides, El Desierto sulphur, Alto Chapare danburite&boracite, Kami japanese twinned quarz and of course the Corocoro copper to aragonite pseudomorphs. Where to stop?
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To cut a long story short: we know Bolivia. We have lived&worked there for more than a decade and travelled there dozens of times. We have good contacts with the local cooperativa-miners and with Comibol-mines and we know the local fixers who will make our dreams happen. We can get you underground in the San José or Itos mines etc (region Oruro) to collect those famous sulfides yourself. We can go underground in the Viloco mine, Tomokoni mine and visit Corocoro (region La Paz). The Tazna mine, Cerro Rico etc (region Potosi). The Poopo mines and others like Llallagua/Siglo-XX etc (region Oruro). But also El Desierto and El Dragon (in the south), the Kami mine and Alto Chapare (region Cochabamba), etc. We know the interesting dumps and collecting sites above ground. And we know the dealers and runners that can deliver the specimens you are looking for...
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With us you will be able to enjoy Bolivia to the fullest. We can enjoy the spectacular nature of the Salar de Uyuni, the high mountains around the Viloco mine or Lake Titicaca. And we can (and will) also visit towns like Cochabamba (to acclimatize to visiting mines above 4.000 meter), La Paz/El Alto, Oruro (on visiting the mines) and the beautiful old Spanish city of Potosi. Once you have visited the highest city on Earth, the rest of your life is going down... We can walk the markets and enjoy the colorful Bolivian people, their culture and their food (have you ever eaten Llama?). And we can relax in good restaurants and cafe's in Cochabamba. Bolivia is an intense country to travel in, and can feel like an emotional rollercoaster. So we will look for as much as possible relaxing moments and pick the most luxurious hotels...
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(for a bigger picture, click on the small one...)
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We can travel to Bolivia almost all year long. The Altiplano with the famous ore-mines is good in the South-American summer, and the lower part of Bolivia with Alto Chapare etc is good in the winter...
So we recommend joining us in december/january (summer) or september/october (winter).
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Click here for an article about our last trip in Bolivia. This article was published in two parts in MineralNews.
(The article is in Adobe pdf format. Click here for the Adobe Reader)
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...tailored... exclusive... unique... private... luxurious when possible... yet adventurous... and... most important... fun... !
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