Candelaria Tours
Sucre, Chuquisaca - Bolivia
 
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Bolivian travel and tourism agency with many years experience.
Address: Calle Audiencia # 1

 
Details

With deep understanding of the travel business complimented by a great knowledge of Bolivia, Candelaria Tours has the resources to offer unique arrangements to make tour programs successful.
We provide efficient and personalized handling of tour services for individuals and groups, depending on their specific interests.

 
 
Sucre and Potosí

Program of 3 days and 2 nights
Day 1: Transfer in from the airport. Lunch at a local restaurant. City tour H/D. Overnight in Sucre.
Day 2: Departure to Potosi. City tour H/D in Potosí visiting the mint, and a convent. Lunch at San Marcos, an old metal Mill turned into a very unusual restaurant. Visit to a Mine and return to Sucre. Overnight in Sucre.
Day 3: Breakfast. Transfer out.

 
 
Paleontology and Antropology

Program of 4 days and 3 nights
Day 1: Transfer in and visit to the University Museum where you’ll get a background on Bolivian anthropology.
Departure to the community of Potolo, where you’ll visit indigenous homes and the tapestry center of Asur. Picnic at the river band.
Optional: 12-Km (round trip) walk to see more dinosaur footprints and overnight at "Bramadero" an Andean refuge.
Day 2: Departure to Tarabuco. Visit to the indigenous market where you can practice your bartering skills with the natives. Return to our restaurant “El Horno”, where you will bake fresh bread in an indigenous oven for you to have with lunch.
After lunch continue to Hacienda Candelaria where you’ll be able to see some weavers working in their looms and representing important facts of their lives in their designs as well as you’ll also participate in the dance of the “pujllay” with the natives. Visit to the Hacienda's storage rooms, orchards, private chapel and our unique native museum. Overnight at the Hacienda.
Day 3: After breakfast, departure to the Icla Canyon where, besides admiring the geological formation of the canyon you can seek for fossils of the quaternary period. Picnic at the canyon. Return to the Hacienda. Dinner with candlelight’s and overnight at the Hacienda.
Day 4: Return to Sucre. Visit to Asur (textile museum) and the dinosaur footprints. Transfer out.

 
 
In Touch with wilderness

Program of 5 days and 3 nights
Day 1: Arrival transfer and accommodations at the chosen Hotel. P.M. Tour around the city visiting places that interests our passenger(s). Overnight.
Day 2: After breakfast, departure to Potosí. Visit to the castle of La Glorieta, and short stopover at Puente Sucre and the Pulqui Hacienda on the highway to Potosí. Upon arrival to Potosí, visit to San Marcos Mill, where besides having lunch passengers will learn and appreciate the process of minerals in the mills of Potosí.
P.M. Visit to the "Casa de la Moneda" where all the mining and coin making machinery can be seen in situ. Visit to the convent of Santa Teresa, where the convent and religious life was like in the 17th century. Overnight in Potosi.
Day 3: After breakfast shopping for presents at the Miner's market, where they buy all the implements they need for their daily work (dynamite, calcium carburate, coca leaves, etc.). Visit the inside of a cooperative mine where people still work like in the colonial period. In this visit you meet the miners, see them work, and participate in the Catholic and pagan rituals inside the mine.
Departure to Uyuni (220 KM.) going through old mines to the valley and up the Cordillera (4750 meters), to finally come down to the Altiplano and encounter the unique Salt Lake. Overnight at the Salt Hotel.
Day 4: Visit to Colchani on the borders of the Salar where you can cooperate in the process of making salt with iodine. Trip across the Salt flat (105KM.) to the Island "Lomo de Pescado" to appreciate the immense cactus that grow in the area, together with natural wildlife. * Return to Uyuni and overnight.
Day 5: After breakfast, return to Potosí to continue the trip to Sucre or direct trip from Uyuni to La Paz.

 
 
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Updating, May 2008