Hello local guides, I was absent from my first post to apply to connect live 2020, but that did not stop my passion to learn more about my country Bolivia.
Even in a pandemic, I was able to continue traveling through the country and touring it, for those who do not know Bolivia is a very diverse country in ancient cultures still alive, the diversity of climates is fantastic one day you can be in the west of the country and you can confuse that these in Switzerland because of the snow that abounds in all the road sections and nearby towns and the next day you may be in the east thinking that you are in the tropical jungle of Indonesia, my country is still a treasure ready to be discovered and leave anyone in love of its beauty. A couple of months ago I made a trip to a mining camp (Bolivia has mineral resources that even five hundred years after the Spanish conquest are not finished) which is called “Colquiri”, at the time of the trip we prepared to go to lands with low temperatures But we did not wear too much warm clothing, so we started the trip, at first everything was normal, it was a road with fields around, so far so good, but when we started to reach the large plateau it was our surprise, It was snow!
We did not find out that the day before the trip the temperature had dropped almost in all western Bolivian, while we were on the road for a moment I came to think that we were in some country of northern Europe, I said to myself "Our country perhaps may he be poor, but how rich he is in other things "
I ended up so delighted with the tour to the Colquiri mine that sleep and exhaustion left me through such beautiful landscapes that delighted us during n Our trip, the arrival to the town was also special but not in a pleasant way, upon arriving at the mine I could see a polluted river, the contamination of the river is because the mining company uses the river water to wash the mineral, that water It becomes toxic water, which pollutes the surrounding land. This water is popularly known by Bolivian miners as “Copajira” which means toxic water.
I do not blame the people of the town for not doing anything with the contaminated water, because Bolivia is a poor country and therefore there are many poor people and these people will always prefer to work despite the unfair conditions in which their communities find themselves due to contamination. mining.
When I returned from the trip, I was more in love with my country, but also more aware that mining activities are causing irreversible damage to nature and that something must be done and soon.
Here I leave a couple of images out there they say, one picture says more than a thousand words.
The town “Colquiri”
The good view
The inside of the mine
que como bien dices no es la que estamos acostumbrados a ver y más bien parece el norte de Europa.
y más en una zona que según describes, necesita impulso económico.
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